How many RoboCoach Commands?

[David]

Originally Posted by Chrisms

it's not a loophole, just creativity of coding.

also, think about this:
if you had one of your commands "cycle" through a list of 3 other commands, you could have an infinite amount of commands from 4 inputs. however... your robocoach will go nuts trying to figure out which command is which. Maybe if you had a card counter or something.. hmmm.

You could have a few status lights on the robot to tell the robocoach what programming set he had on.

I think that the Robocoach can only make the robot do 4 things during a match. As for the changing from hybrid to tele - the second bullet of <R69> specifically disallows that.

• The ROBOT shall not dynamically change the recognized command set during a MATCH.

If this rule is interpreted literally you would have to have, for example, a button to turn left then a button to stop turning. I believe this rule is intended so teams cannot change code "on-the-fly" during a match (i.e. downloading new code through some remotely operate serial cable). I do not believe this rule prevents cycling through commands like Chrisms and others have stated. Also if your team had PID or traction control and one of your commands was drive straight, then, if interpreted literally, you would have violated this rule (the robot is dynamically changing motor speed depending on the robot's speed).