Camera does not search in autonomous mode after reset

[Bharat Nain]

Originally Posted by Keith Watson

We encountered a problem for the first time today at the regional. It only happens in autonomous mode. Take the robot to the playing field, plug in the backup battery, power on the main battery, press reset on the controller, the camera does not initialize.

I've read other people have encountered the same problem but have not seen anyone have an actual fix.

The camera code is correctly called from autonomous mode and works if the robot is put into user mode then back into autonomous mode (which you obvisously cannot do on the field). We even did this in the pits and left the robot powered on till it was put on the playing field. It worked that time.

We have since found a spot in the code which is called in autonomous mode right before the inner while loop. We are going to try to reset the camera intialization variable there and test it during the finals.

The behavior is the same as if a controller reset does not call the program's static initializers in autonomous mode!

We have had some weird problems on the field all day too but we COMPLETELY unplug all our batteries and then check all our electrical connections and put it back in. It seemed to have worked fine after that.