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

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Originally Posted by Doug Leppard

Now I got to decide between voting for 1902 or 386. 386 had an exceptional consistency in getting lower rack and would try again if missed and got hit and still made it. 1902 was fast, could do low and middle. Oh the big decisions.

Thanks for the comments for 386! I can't vote yet as I haven't seen videos of all of the choices (the link offered in post 1 is down).

As for speed, I'd say 386 and 1902 were a tie provided that we (386) didn't need a retry. As for consistency, I'd have to give that one to 386 with a 13/14 hit rate (92.85%) on Archimedes regardless of what they did to the rack (and they seemed to twist and translate it EVERY time when we were on the field).

We only missed the first qualifier, but a simple distance tweak fixed that. We were drifting off to the left for a bit, but another small target tweak brought us back into the center. We ended the competition with 100% in the 7 elimination rounds on Archimedes.

As the alliance captain of the finalists on Archimedes, we were the backup 'bot for the division on Einstein. We did check the lighting and alignment on that field and found it to be within our tolerances (lighting was perfect, alignment was close enough).

I suspect that the "brand new field" on Einstein was the cause of 1902's failure to score. The other playfields had bungie's that were steadily stretching causing the spiders under the lights to skew steadily to the side for which we all adjusted our targeting. If you had checked Einstein closely, the spiders were very straight under the lights for the first time since all of our first regionals.

For YouTube views of our Archimedes autonomous along with our toughest and best runs at Palmetto, check out the following links. If you want to see ALL of 386's autonomous executions, check out the BitTorrented videos at http://ldeffenb.dnsalias.net:30049

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iZxxcQADhM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_2BXB8aMU8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvLJym0lhg

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386 Software & Coach

2007 Winner of the Championship Innovation in Control Award