What are you planning for Autonomous?

[snoman]

Wow 30% of teams think they can do all defence and score high?? Maybe 30% on Einstein. We would like to do category B,D and low bar and get in a spot to shoot when tel starts

[Chris is me]

Crossing any defense and scoring high? That's ambitious. Teams had a hard enough time scoring in auton in 2012, when they had at least two attempts to do it and didn't even have to move. Teams will find themselves in unpredictable positions after crossing defenses and missing shots regularly. I expect only the very best auton teams (987, 254 tier teams) will even possibly be able to cross barriers like Rough Terrain and still make a shot.

Crossing a specific defense and scoring high is also ambitious, but a lot more doable (if that defense is called the Low Bar).

I expect several events will have no robots capable of both crossing and scoring high in auton.

[IronicDeadBird]

Man coordinating Auto this year so worlds don't collide ought to be fun...

[Dibit1010]

We are going to cross a defense (probably something easy like the cheval de frize/ramparts/rock wall/moat) and then using our vision code shoot a high goal. If we still have time after this we would like to cross back over into the neutral zone

[philso]

Originally Posted by 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.

Drat! You stole our strategy!

Originally Posted by Abhishek R

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

Or drive at full speed into the robot of a local powerhouse team. One that every team at the tournament hopes to get picked by.

Originally Posted by TJP123

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

Triple Tortuga in Auto aught to be worth more than a $10 gift card.

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Man coordinating Auto this year so worlds don't collide ought to be fun...

This would be our second opportunity to drive into the robot of a local powerhouse team.

[jajabinx124]

3 boulder auto of course.

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by philso

Or drive at full speed into the robot of a local powerhouse team. One that every team at the tournament hopes to get picked by.

Speaking as somebody who has done this (albeit at an offseason), it's totally worth it just to watch Jim Zondag's reaction.

[hardcopi]

Our plan is to have an auto script where we program in what defenses are at what locations then choose which defense to cross, which ball to grab and which goal to hit.

That is the plan... alternatively we were thinking the robot could sing a song and do a little dance number. Where can we get a circuit board top hat and cain?

[cait.schroeder]

Our robot is being designed to be able to overcome all obstacles and to open the porticullis and drawbridge (correct me if I am incorrect) for our alliance teams to go through. For autonomous we will probably go through/ over an easier obstacle.