What are you planning for Autonomous?

[MrJohnston]

Okay, we are better than a week in and I am guessing that most teams have a pretty good idea what they are trying to accomplish... So, if all goes to plan, what sort of autonomous routine will you likely be sporting as your "go-to" routine?

[Aaron (Awe-Sum)]

Our goal with the robot in general was to overcome all defenses aside from the low bar, while also being able to shoot high goals.
This will allow us a lot of freedom during Autonomous mode. We plan to traverse either the defense in slot 3 or slot 4, then shoot a high goal.

[EricH]

I rather suspect that we'll be using sensors to collect data about our environment, then discarding that and driving straight into the nearest Defense or Shield, whichever is handiest.

[Abhishek R]

Originally Posted by EricH

I rather suspect that we'll be using sensors to collect data about our environment, then discarding that and discarding straight into the nearest Defense or Shield, whichever is handiest.

I prefer the guardrail. It's more exciting for the audience and/or referees.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

I prefer the guardrail. It's more exciting for the audience and/or referees.

Risk of being disabled if you extend out and hit something, though.

[Anthony Galea]

We plan to have at the minimum an auto that will score in the high goal from the spybot position for our week one event, but at the same time be midway developing our autonomous that can cross and score for our week 3 event (hopefully).

So, because it isn't possible to select multiple choices, I'll go with "none of the above"

[TJP123]

I didn't see an option to vote for "Get beached on the nearest defense, then fling a ball aimlessly."

[Whippet]

Current plan: Cross either category A defense (Cheval de Fries or Portcullis) or low bar
Reality: Spin around in a circle? Run backward into the other alliance's robots? Do a sick jump off of the rampy defenses and/or over the guardrail? Honestly, who knows?

[Pirateninja1234]

Current plan: Cross either category A defense (Cheval de Fries or Portcullis) or low bar
Reality: Spin around in a circle? Run backward into the other alliance's robots? Do a sick jump off of the rampy defenses and/or over the guardrail? Honestly, who knows?

How do you plan on crossing the chill de fries?

For the question my team plans on a 20 pt. autonomous to cross any defense and aim and shoot into the high goal. Then opening either the sally port or the drawbridge at the end of the autonomous period.

Programmer for 2557.

[bmire3206]

my team is planning that we change it on the dashboard prior to the match to change it based on our alignment.

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Pirateninja1234

How do you plan on crossing the chill de fries?

We plan to drive up roughly centered on the plank to the right as the robot views it, then lower our ball pickup, which has a portion that goes essentially to the floor. Then we'll just drive over the adjacent planks. Probabaly not necessary, but we will have a skid plate between our inner plates (highly modified KoP 2015 chassis).

[JohnFogarty]

Our current plans involve the robot traversing a defense, and then using sensors and vision tracking to score high. I might suggest the additional pathing back towards the defenses or over them to prepare to continue our assault of the defenses once auto ends.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Pirateninja1234

How do you plan on crossing the chill de fries?

I accidentally read this as....


Chili Fries.


I think we have this year's food reference.

[JohnFogarty]

Originally Posted by EricH

I accidentally read this as....


Chili Fries.


I think we have this year's food reference.

I legit read it the same way.

[Turing'sEgo]

Prediction: More than half the balls in the center of the field will be scored in autonomous on Einstein. It'd be cool to see robots use vision to adapt to which balls remain.