What's your plan for Autonomous?

[Monochron]

In Auto we'll start by boiling tea and warming up crumpets using our always-on compressor. There is nothing that says 'gracious professionalism' like making brunch for your opponents.

[baumgartensam]

Our plan is to start our 3d printer right at the beginning of autonomous so that the robot finishes printing with enough time to stack all the yellow totes.

Yes, we are 3d printing all of the ICs as well

We use our flux capacitor in a non-traditional manner to speed up the chemical and physical reactions occurring in our robot and 3d printer allowing us to print a robot complete with electronics in under 5 seconds leaving us 10 seconds to stack the yellow totes. We decided it would be too ambitious and unrealistic to stack the gray ones as well

[aldaeron]

Robot uses 16 MiniCIM based quadcopter to float above auto zone and uses portal gun to stack all 3 yellow totes and get 3 cans into auto zone from step.

[baumgartensam]

In all seriousness, I've noticed a lot of teams are planning on doing a 3 tote autonomous and I will be interested to see at competitions how many can actually pull it off. Scouting, as always, will be extremely important.

[2130driven]

if you are completely able to take ALL of the totes have everyone take their robots to the auto zone completely out of the way. score the points... good strategy?

[Codster39221924]

Originally Posted by 'lil robo-girl

We have a very hopeful plan where we get our alliance mates to simply move to the autozone, then we'll stack the totes and put all three bins in the autozone in one 13-second sweep. It works fine in the model we made... but we all know how that can go astray.

So, what's everyone planning to do during auto? Take care of your own bin and tote? Just move the bot? Something bigger?

Do u got it working cause i want to see a video of that. Cause i will be impressed by it.

[JesseK]

A 3-tote autonomous is relatively easy if 2 bots pull 2 RC's out of your way.

Then again, if both RC's wind up being tipped over thus preventing the alliance from using them, the autonomous was completely worthless.

[kjohnson]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Then again, if both RC's wind up being tipped over thus preventing the alliance from using them, the autonomous was completely worthless.

Precisely. Comparing the maximum points in autonomous to the points available in tele-op using the same pieces (40 co-op, RC stack bonuses x3) I'd almost rather have no autonomous points scored from moving RC or stacking totes than making the game pieces that are worth the most points harder to score because they were accidentally knocked over.

[PayneTrain]

Originally Posted by JesseK

A 3-tote autonomous is relatively easy if 2 bots pull 2 RC's out of your way.

Then again, if both RC's wind up being tipped over thus preventing the alliance from using them, the autonomous was completely worthless.

Guess teams should have a way to deal with tipped RCs if something another alliance member does could affect your entire teleop routine (where a large potential of points lie)...

[dellagd]

Originally Posted by JesseK

A 3-tote autonomous is relatively easy if 2 bots pull 2 RC's out of your way.

While that may be true, good luck getting much use out of that autonomous mode in competition. Planning on modes that require your partners to execute specific actions that may or may not be trivial, especially two partners, I expect would rarely ever actually result in a successful Auton mode. And if you can't demonstrate something well in the quals, well, then teams wont exactly be very willing to pick you for it.

[Doc Wu]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

Use sensors to collect data about the surrounding environment, then discard it and drive into walls.

Well, at least that makes "Do nothing" look like an improvement!

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by JesseK

A 3-tote autonomous is relatively easy if 2 bots pull 2 RC's out of your way.

Then again, if both RC's wind up being tipped over thus preventing the alliance from using them, the autonomous was completely worthless.

Who says tipped over RCs will be worthless?

[evanperryg]

Originally Posted by JesseK

A 3-tote autonomous is relatively easy if 2 bots pull 2 RC's out of your way.

Then again, if both RC's wind up being tipped over thus preventing the alliance from using them, the autonomous was completely worthless.

sounds like a mechanical shortcoming, to me.

Also:
1.drive forward
2.center cans
3.3 tote

[MrJohnston]

Originally Posted by nukemknight

Precisely. Comparing the maximum points in autonomous to the points available in tele-op using the same pieces (40 co-op, RC stack bonuses x3) I'd almost rather have no autonomous points scored from moving RC or stacking totes than making the game pieces that are worth the most points harder to score because they were accidentally knocked over.

Of course, if you design a robot that can deal with tipped containers, this becomes a non-issue.... The way we saw it, dealing with tipped RC's was a necessary part of any robot that planned to be good at stacking them.

[rose2dawn]

We have our robot following the yellow totes. It is a ton of fun to watch one of the mentors take off with a tote and see how fast the bot catches up.