BEST USE of the IR Remote!!!

[captain1807]

Wow, I read this and it made sense.

I was toying with the idea of using them like toggle switches, but I never put 4 and 4 together.

Job well done guys, you are the beings of superior intellect.

[flightofone]

We're planning on having the IR remote provide very similar driving functions to regular operator control. Our 4 buttons do:
1 - turn left 10-degrees
2 - turn right 10-degrees
3 - accelerate 2fps^2
4 - decelerate 2fps^2 (including going negative if already at zero)
Since the buttons can be repeatedly pressed as needed, this should provide decent driving functionality.

[Travis Hoffman]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

It's obvious to me that the expected four signals/actions are something like this:

1) Knock off the ball in the leftmost spot
2) Knock off the ball in the center spot
3) Knock off the ball in the rightmost spot
4) Just go!

Can this also not be accomplished simply by setting your autonomous program at your operator controls after they randomly place the trackballs on the overpass? <G20> just says the players have to be in the alliance stations for the trackballs to be placed, NOT behind the lines. They can still make adjustments to auton before the match starts. If anyone sees any other rules which prohibit this action, I'd love for them to point them out.

I know not every team employs such autonomous program select functionality at their operator controls, but perhaps they should, given the added flexibility.

<G20>

TRACKBALL Locations - After all ROBOTS participating in the MATCH are in their starting positions and the TEAM members are in the ALLIANCE ZONE and/or ROBOCOACH STATIONS, four TRACKBALLS will be placed on the OVERPASS. On each side of the OVERPASS there are three TARGET LOCATIONS for TRACKBALLS. The field management system will randomly choose an initial starting location for the TRACKBALLS before the start of each MATCH. One red and one blue TRACKBALL will then be positioned
in the chosen TARGET LOCATIONS on each side of the OVERPASS. After this point in time no ROBOT may be moved or repositioned until the MATCH starts.

Now regarding the IR remote...

Not having really thought about it in too much detail, I'd consider the following four actions....

Start/Continue (Jump to Next Autonomous Step)
Stop/Pause (Signal End of Current Autonomous Step)
Tweak Steering Left some finite increment during motion
Tweak Steering Right some finite increment during motion

I do not anticipate much use of the remote in Teleop mode. Actions 1 and 2 would obviously not apply. Perhaps I could use Actions 3 and 4 to assist the pilot in making the left turn at the far end of the field should his/her vision be blocked.

[CyDrive]

The only other thing you need to worry about is also your starting position. Since you will have 1 of 3 spaces you will occupy the code will need to be changed for each space. So you would need to plan out who gets what space with your alliance members.

[fuherg1]

Our team's plan for hybrid and the IR is this. We are planning on making it so our robot will autonomously go for the middle part no matter what. But if there is no ball there we have a back up plan. We are using mecanum or omniwheels and will only need to press left or right. That way we wouldn't interupt the auto code and we dont need to waste a button on taking off the trackball. The other two buttons are now open to something else such as go around the corner and get the other ball or something like that. We don't want it to be just a small controller so we are using set out functions for it to do.