Brownout behavior - alternative design goals

[jhersh]

Originally Posted by Tanis

As for comms loss causing the robots to be disabled- I am in favor of that. Without comms, you can't e-stop your robot. That means that if you lose comms and your robot becomes a danger to itself or to people, you can't stop it. Disabling the robot when it can no longer communicate with the driver station sounds like an appropriate action to take.

That's contradictory and not how it will work. And anyway, if you have no comms how does FMS disabling do any good. You have no comms.

No, we will continue to have the designed behavior that the robot will override (locally) the enable signal when a situation deems it (no comms and brown out) and the DS and FMS should only use that as status for humans (if they even have comms to receive that status).

The FMS broke this year and it will be fixed.