Favorite Autonomous Mode

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Henry_222

Wow, I am soooooo happy I heard that. I have been preaching that style mode since week 4, read the pwm value once the camera has a find and the run one of 8 pre-programmed "dead reckoning" modes, and I am not even a programmer .

Actually, our autonomous program only uses dead-reckoning to reach the tetra, and that is primarily because our camera is mounted on our lift which is in the process of tilting out while we're driving to it, which causes enough shaking in the camera that if we try to use it for driving it gets very erratic. Once we've picked up the tetra, though, we use vision to drive to the goal (unless the goal is out of the camera's field of view, then it automatically falls back to dead reckoning until the goal is within view).

Back on topic, my favorite autonomous modes this year were from Pink (only saw them on the practice field in the pits, but dang was it fast!) and the Huskies (team 65). Both picked up off the autoloader in autonomous which in retrospect is what our team should have worked on. It would have been much more beneficial to us to start the match with two tetras in hand.