2009 Control System Possibility?

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Originally Posted by Dave Scheck

I definitely think that teams that have hybrid/autonomous robots that just sit there are doing so because of a lack of software understanding.

That may be the case for some teams, but I think more often than not it's due to insufficient time. When you only get the robot a few hours before it goes into the crate, in order to program it, it's usually considered more important to make it work in teleoperated mode, than in hybrid/autonomous mode.

Originally Posted by Dave Scheck

I think that the way that the game is defined will dictate the excitement of the autonomous movement (2005 wasn't very interesting was it?).

I agree with the game design dictating the excitement level, but I thought 2005 was very interesting. Our autonomous that year (after a few iterations doing other things) stacked a tetra on a goal, grabbed the hanging tetra (catching it mid-air), and then stacked it on top. 2004 had my favorite autonomous run - in one match we autonomously caught a ball mid-air as one team tried to beat us to it, and knock it out of our grasp - but 2005 was my overall favorite in terms of what we did and could do autonomously.