Future FRC Technologies?

[MasterMentor]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Ability for the robots to access the live scoring data from the FMS.
Teams could build their own score overlays into their dashboards or future HUDs.

Robots could actually confirm that a scoring task was complete, very useful for auton.

Lots of other uses I can't think of right now.

While that would seem useful during the match, what would then constitute a replay? If the updated score/details didn't make it to your system within 10ms? 100ms? 1000ms? If the data wasn't updating on your DS because your DS was either AT or NEARLY AT maximum CPU utilization (and how would you prove that?!)? Would anyone then easily accept a backup DS from the FTA?

I do agree that having the data published to the DS in the same manner that the match timer is published to the DS would be considerably beneficial, but I'm not sure that it would be reasonable to *depend* on that data in-match. But, even unofficially, it could be incredibly useful to have that data in real-ish-time.

-George