Autonomous at Regionals

[scitobor 617]

The autonomous mode I wrote missed picking up a tetra from the autoloader by a few inches in our best match. In another match the robot nocked the tetra outside of the field. My teams was at the VCU regional.

[Meandmyself]

Given the new math libraries, and the support Kevin Watson gave for the encoders and gyros, I was really surprised that not many teams had good autonomous modes. The one best I saw at VCU was the Virginia Tech team who capped the side goal with an alliance tetra every time. With plenty of time to test, I'm sure that many more bots will have great autonomous modes, something to look for at some of the summer competitions.
My team this year decided not to have an arm, so our autonomous consisted primarily of getting to our opponent's side ASAP so we could get in their way. However, we want to put an arm on it for the summer, and I fully expect to have an autonomous that caps several goals in autonomous.

[Shu Song]

No one at Rochester was able to do it, but as dez250 said, 237 came so close a number of times. So it seems like the consensus from the first week of competition is that no one has been able to track, pick up and cap vision tetra.

I'm interested to see if any team does it this year.

[ThePBoss]

Oh man! One of the reasons our (Aztechs 157) autonomous mode didn't work, was that we didn't have enough time to debug our code for the lighting at BAE.

We wrote the code in assabet (our school - It worked very well!!!), and our calibration values were much too different from the ones at BAE. We also mounted our camera way too low, so our yellow values were very innacurate.

I found out too late!

I guarantee, it will work at UTC!!! See you guys there!

[neilsonster]

Team 772 used our camera during most of the qualifying matches since it was consistent at home but every time autonomous started in Rochester it was a few inches off. On top of that the fragile servo kept breaking. Overnight I wrote a different autonomous that went to the auto loaders which worked out much better (but the turning needs to be sped up a ton - if you saw our bot you'll know what I mean!!).

[kjohnson]

At VCU:

Rookie team and our alliance partner 1610 had a working camera that drove them to the vision tetra and they could pick it up. The lighting at VCU was bad - the lights were mounted on the sides of the field, but none at the back so some teams' cameras would not work properly. Lighting in the pits was better than lighting on the field. Thanks to Gerome the field manager for trying to help.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by TierraDelDiablo

I'm interested to see if any team does it this year.

I guarantee you at Trenton we will cap.

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by TierraDelDiablo

No one at Rochester was able to do it, but as dez250 said, 237 came so close a number of times. So it seems like the consensus from the first week of competition is that no one has been able to track, pick up and cap vision tetra.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that 492 will be able to do it. At the Bellevue practice event they successfully picked up the vision tetra on every try and came *this* close to capping the center goal three times. I mean that they actually had the tetra above the center of the goal and it hit just a little wrong and fell off.

By the way, 492 finished their robot in three or four weeks and had lots of time to work on their programming. They told me that their chassis was welded together on Tuesday after the Saturday announcement, and was rolling in a week or so. They won PNW regional last year, and got to the semis at national. I would expect them to repeat.

[Paul Copioli]

I guarantee you at Trenton we will cap.

Man, you guys were so close at FLR. I am willing to bet you will get it, too.

For those of you that didn't get to watch Finger Lakes, 237 was so close almost every time. The entire crowd was rooting for them every autonomous mode. It was pretty exciting.

I hope you get it at Trenton.

-Paul

[Captain Rich]

We will be picking up a tetra from the auto loader by the next competion. We have the robot arriving a few inches to the far side of the tetra, so remove a few hundred ticks and we should be right on. We would have done that earlier, but we didn't want to mess up in the finals.

[mrmummert]

Originally Posted by nukemknight

At VCU:

Rookie team and our alliance partner 1610 had a working camera that drove them to the vision tetra and they could pick it up. The lighting at VCU was bad - the lights were mounted on the sides of the field, but none at the back so some teams' cameras would not work properly. Lighting in the pits was better than lighting on the field. Thanks to Gerome the field manager for trying to help.

Hi...Thank you kyle for that note....We plan on improving our auto
mode at national (if we get there,bots already there)....
anyway our two programming engineers,my son william and miles babb...
and maybe oscar have cooked something up for MB....hopefully it
will work better...also we have like seven or eight other programs
we can load into it if we have to change.

during the regionals i think also in the first match it found the tetra,
picked it up and had it over the center goal, but would'nt let it
go. We fixed the release problem during regionals, but had some
problems between the lighting and getting it lined up.

We also bashed our sensors up during competition,so they will
need a little fixing.

[Airforce1000]

Team 624 could pick up the vision tetras in autonomous. They just had trouble capping. Not just in autonomous, but in general. In the semi-finals, a vision tetra got stuck on their arm in autonomous and they couldn't get it off. Better luck for them in their next matches. :\

We don't have the camera on our robot because of the weight limit. We have it all set up in the script and all. We got the gyro to work on last year's robot, but not this years. I think that the interface was too different. We capped many goals in autonomous. We started to the far left backwards and we turned around, spun our turret and capped. I've been thinking on making a script to start in the center position with the tetra and capping the center goal. I'll have to start working on that at the Vegas regional.

[danield710]

at ucf probly the team with the best and most flexible autonomous mode was 233
in one mode they could knock down the hanging tetra and then go the autoload station and pick up a tetra from it

a lot of teams could stack a tetra on a side goal if they started out with it and a lot of teams could knock down the hanging tetras as well

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Our auto mode held a tetra and used it to knock off a hanging tetra then stack that one on top of the corresponding goal. I like to think that we were the roll model at St. Louis for 1288 who did the same thing but that probably isn't the case.

There were no teams with the camera that I know of at St. Louis.

[omutton]

We could find the vision tetra every time, and were very close to capping. With a bit of de-bugging we will be able to cap in autonomous at Waterloo!