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

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Cory

1425, maybe?

I believe they used similar sensors for their autonomous.

That's who I thought of but they turned it off for the championship.
Why isn't 1126 on this list?

[ericand]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

That's who I thought of but they turned it off for the championship.
Why isn't 1126 on this list?

Actually, 1425 didn't turn it off. Our lower ultra sonic sensor wasn't working correctly (possibly due to a change we made to strengthen the front end). Looking at the video, I think it almost worked in one match after we made some adjustments, but that match a defensive auto mode pushed the spider legs towards us so we were too close to score.

We really didn't want to change much since we were doing so well in all other respects. In hind sight, the reward may have outweighed the risk.

Our system consisted of 4 ultra-sonic sensors. One low on the robot, aimed to detect the base of the rack. 3 right below our gripper to detect the foot. The basic program for auto mode went like this:

deploy the gripper/tube
start to move the tube to scoring height
start moving forward - timed -
this lets us ignore our lower sensor while it calibrated
and prevented false readings in case it saw the gripper deploy.
using the lower sensor - drive to within scoring distance of the rack
using the upper sensor pod, center the robot on the nearest spider foot
robot turns right/left to seek the foot
If foot found, lower gripper - release tube - wait for auto to end
else release tube regardless at 14.5 seconds

The upper sensors were read by a custom curcuit which fed back 2 bits of target data
to the RC. The data that came back represented the possible foot locations from the
sensor pod's point of view:
Center
Right
Left
Unknown

The original plan was to have more info go back to the RC but our first cut at the communications
did not work and we ran out of time.

[Sislith]

i vote 1126 as well, why are they not on the list they were consistent

[Jeff 801]

is it just me but is the web site down

[jagman2882]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

That's who I thought of but they turned it off for the championship.
Why isn't 1126 on this list?

i was wondering that too!!!

i think that we hit on like 85% to 90% throughout the whole year(maybe a little high but im just guessing)

but ne who

[Barry Bonzack]

I put my voice in for 1902, the accuracy on that hog was outstanding. I would also like to give my honorable mention to 386 with the "cool" factor. Many teams have Easy Buttons in their driver station, but not many teams have a functional Easy Button on their robot that they use as a sensor for autonomous mode.