Poll: Best Autonomous(read the 1st post before voting)

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Are you referring to Einstein? I think 1902, and others, had trouble with the additional lighting, although I may be wrong.

I know we had no issues tracking the light, the way our code is set up if it hadn't seen the light it would have stayed home (a safety measure we put in the code to avoid the autonomous doing something silly). From everything I saw I think that in the end the 1" tolerance rules probably was what hit us. I feel pretty safe in that for the fact that our camera alone has like an entire sheet of "pre-match" checks to make sure it's in specific alignment each time (since obviously a degree or two off can significantly effect calibrations) Something on Einstein was physically out of skew a little bit, but I couldn't tell you what or how to be honest. The light may have been an inch lower (which at those angles would effect the calibration the most) than it should have been or the chain a little taught on one of the spiders, I'm not sure... but something was different on Einstein from the calibration values we've used throughout the year at regionals/Galileo/practice fields/etc. and I think it caught us off guard.

At that point, when you are on Einstein, to risk an untested code change to hopefully fix that problem is too high of a risk for the possible benefit, hence why the same problem occurred in the same way each time. It's ashame, but that's part of the game!