Driver Assistance Used This Season?

[GeeTwo]

We haven't used this (just thought of it yesterday). Some game controllers have "rumble" vibrators. These could be used for feedback.

[EDesbiens]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

We haven't used this (just thought of it yesterday). Some game controllers have "rumble" vibrators. These could be used for feedback.

We used that and if you put more then one fonction connected to the vibration, you can't really know which triggered it... Even if you can change the power of the vibration emited...

[Dhill098]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

We haven't used this (just thought of it yesterday). Some game controllers have "rumble" vibrators. These could be used for feedback.

This year with used PS3 controllers. The driver was notified through rumble that 10 seconds were left in the match so he would know to score the current stack. I was the operator this year, and our robots mechanisms and stacker are completely pneumatic. The operator controller rumbled when our tanks fell below 60 PSI.

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Dhill098

The operator controller rumbled when our tanks fell below 60 PSI.

I have to admit that making your controller rumble whenever the compressor is running makes some amount of sense...

Now we need to find a USB heat plate so the operator can check the PDP temperature during the match.

[Lemon]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

I have to admit that making your controller rumble whenever the compressor is running makes some amount of sense...

Well for us the compressor was almost always running. We had a pressure transducer trigger a rumble when PSI dropped bellow 60 more so the operator would be aware of the degradation in pneumatics performance from then on and could adjust his response accordingly.

[marshall]

Originally Posted by Jared Russell

I have to admit that making your controller rumble whenever the compressor is running makes some amount of sense...

Now we need to find a USB heat plate so the operator can check the PDP temperature during the match.

We actually helped with getting the rumble stuff into the code for this year with the beta feedback. It was actually a really funny conversation. We filed a bug report to get them to add it and were told it wasn't a necessary feature to start with. The other mentor helping with the testing immediately responding and told them we needed it as a usability enhancement for our blind driver. Good times.

[Lij2015]

On our 2014 robot we used green LED's that lit up when we had enough pressure to shoot(50 psi we found out by the end of the year) and on 1023's robot this year they had green LED's that lit up I think when the tote was situated.

Also you can buy a pressure gauge reader type set up and set it to display to a labview or smartdashboard.

But for physical things on the robot, LED's that indicate things are the way to go

[EricH]

1197 didn't bother with the whole "assist the driver" routine...

...Unless you count our habit of acquiring totes from an HP ramp, lining 'em up for a stack, and getting them stacked and ready for another tote to land underneath with minimal (if any) driver input as assistance, that is! We used an automated loading sequence, and our intake was designed to align totes for a nice easy pickup. I want to say fully automatic stacking once the driver was in position, and ideally we had a can in the top claw.

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by Dhill098

This year with used PS3 controllers. The driver was notified through rumble that 10 seconds were left in the match so he would know to score the current stack. I was the operator this year, and our robots mechanisms and stacker are completely pneumatic. The operator controller rumbled when our tanks fell below 60 PSI.

That's so cool.

Like others said, we also used LEDs for driver feedback. They indicated whether the stack and can were secure as well as indicating whether the robot was in automatic or manual stacking mode. We also had a gyro-assisted drive which made movements feel more precise (to me at least).

Automation always makes an operator's life easier as well. At Dallas, we basically had a shift key on the operator gamepad because he had about 2.5 layers of commands but only one of each button. By the time TRI came around he was only really pushing 5 or so buttons (3 for stacking, 2 for intake).