Simple dead-reckoning autonomous

[BenThompson]

I agree that more teams should try to get autonomous into their bots. Even if it's nothing complex, you can still use it to get ready for the teleoperated period. Also, on the issue of how far the bot goes, I think a trial and error type thing works best, like Tom said. For the actual autonomous code, I find that a simple counter works best:

int autonomous_counter = 0;

void User_Autonomous_Code(void) {

...

autonomous_counter++;
if(autonomous_counter < value) {
	do_something;
}
else if(autonomous_counter < second_value) {
	do_something_else;
}

And basically just increment the counter each loop and check what its value is. For teams who don't know, the processor loops every 26.2 ms, or approximately 38 times per second.

Just wanted to add my two cents into this. If more teams added even simple autonomous programs that prepared them for teleloperated period, then autonomous would be a lot more interesting to watch.