Autonomous mode

[Tyler Olds]

Hey what is your main plan for your autonomous mode?

[Elgin Clock]

To do a pre game warm-up dance!!

[Tyler Olds]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

To do a pre game warm-up dance!!

"Shake it, shake it like a Polaroid Picture, shake it, shake it
Shh you got to, shake it, shh shake it, shake it, got to shake it
(Shake it Suga') shake it like a Poloroid Picture"

(Sorry shouldn't get off track)

[Elgin Clock]

Not the song I was thinking of, but... ok, that'll do!!! lol

[Geoff]

Our plan is simple.

Simple, but effective.

We used neural nets to train our system to the point of unbeleivable accuracy, so we're sure this will work.

First, the robot will use a couple scanners to locate the balls, and a CCD system combined with Sherlock will locate the judge.

Next, the death laser shall stem forth in a glorious green light, and eliminate any judges.

With lack of judging, we should easily be declared the winner of our match. Especially if we point to the laser.

[telkanuru]

Originally Posted by Geoff

Next, the death laser shall stem forth in a glorious green light, and eliminate any judges.

With lack of judging, we should easily be declared the winner of our match. Especially if we point to the laser.

Yeah, I'm still concerned about the power draw on the battery because of the laser. 20 Amp-hours dosn't seem like quite enough, and that cold fusion power design I was working on this afternoon didn't seem to quite be up to what I would call "working". On the upside, I did find a cure for cancer. I think the judges wouldn't notice if we added 2 more batteries, especially if they were dodging the laser/vaporized.

[tophq]

wow...you guys make my team look like rubbish now. im ashamed. we just decided to go for the 10 point ball...lol. can i join yer team guys? ill pay!

[Tyler Olds]

For those of you who are still in debate, would you mind posting what you plan on doing once you figure it all out?

Thanks

[Heretic121]

i have little idea of what we are doing... but i think we are going to try to knock both over and hope the mover goal is on our side. and get that once autonomous is over... but thats just a guess from what ive seen =D

[Jon Anderson]

EMP or vacuum.

We're still undecided, but we're leaning towards the vacuum.

[Joe Matt]

Either we will make a gross dozen KK donuts, we will use the topsy turvy gun from Armed and Dangerous, or we will use our computing power of our controller to do SETI@home.

[pras870]

Autonomous? What's autonomous? Awwww, I guess our robot is just gonna spin around in a circle firing rockets into the crowd killing innocent people. Sigh, back to the drawing board.

[Tyler Olds]

Can we please get some serious imput (though I do like my fun and games (see above posting))?

[Sachiel7]

Well I put other in the vote box.
Basically this year we're using a table-driven dead reckoning auto mode.
We have an autonomous function selection panel, a switch panel of 10 switcehs, each to perform a single funtion. For example, one switch might be "grab goal" or "uncap goal" or "drive back to driver station" and so forth.
At the init of auto mode, a table is set up bild from all the smaller functions tables, and the autonomous mode is executed step by step.
That means you probably won't see us doing the same thing twice.
See you at competition!

[MisterX]

We are doing something like line following/ infered lighting if we decide to go for the 10 pt. but if we are going for the goal we are set up for Dead reackonign I believe