Best Autonomous

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Originally Posted by stj_1533

Of the ones I saw, it's 386 Team Voltage on Archimedes - if it didn't detect that it hung its keeper, it backed up and tried again, as many times as necessary until time expired. Plus they had modes that could go around to the opponent's side of the rack.

Thanks for the compliment! We won the Creativity Award in Orlando, the Controls award at Palmetto, and the Championship Controls award in Atlanta, so I think the judges agreed with you.

The EASY button on the front of TyRap VII made the retry possible. When it contacted the spider foot, the automatic scoring sequence was engaged and the robot KNEW it had made it. If it didn't hit within a reasonable time period or a maximum camera tilt, it would back away from the rack and try again.

On Archimedes we only missed 1 out of our 14 matches (92.85%), and that was the first one. We nailed the remainder of our qualifiers and EVERY SINGLE ONE of our eliminations (Quarter, Semi, and Finals) and ended up Finalists on Archimedes along with 85 and 107.

If you have a BitTorrent client (http://www.BitTornado.com or http://www.BitTorrent.com), feel free to come over to my tracker at http://ldeffenb.dnsalias.net:30049 The videos you'll want are:

2007 UCF Jim 386 WMVs
2007 UCF SOAP 386 WMVs
2007 Palmetto 386 WMVs
2007 Atlanta WMVs

Those have all of our matches in small space and correspondingly low quality. if there's any that you want to see better, pull the .mpg version of that match.

For a great view of the retry, pull 2007 Palmetto Q29.mpg. For our reverse autonomous scoring attempt, check out 2007 UCF Jim 386 Q49. And for a spectacular crash as we attempted a retry for outside scoring, check out 2007 Palmetto Q40.mpg.

Enjoy! If all goes well I'll be compiling a video of all of our autonomous executions labeled with where and when, but I haven't gotten the proverbial round tuit just yet.

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386 Software and Coach

PS. Don't panic if you can't hear the Palmetto videos. Our VCR didn't pick up the audio.