A Reminder of Simplicity

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by 10intheCrunch

In keeping with simplicity:

Why not just use dead reckoning? In general we have observed that the more complicated an auto mode gets, the less accurate it gets, and that extends just as much to sensor using robots. With some thought you can set up a really easy to maintain and tinkerable state machine to adjust motor values, and from there its just some testing to get it to work right...

I also like dead reckoning this year....swamp thing had two very impressive autonomous modes (and possibly a third i wasn't sure) which i believe were dead reckoning....one went plucked the 2X ball off the mobile goal, and the other was to drive at an angle and move their closed claw to the height of the 10 pt ball then simply opened their claw and backed up knocking the 10 pt ball right off....so simple and very impressive if you ask me....

[SeanCassidy]

In SPBLI only two robots could knock down the 10pt ball, and they did it only a few times. Winning automodes just drove forward and stopped to either get the mobile goal or get up the ramp. One of the winning teams could get up to the bar in less the 45 seconds total because of their simple autonomous mode.