Autonomous Strategies

[virtuald]

Shoot balls at the human sitting behind you trying to score, while running away.

[ExarKun666]

Originally Posted by virtuald

Shoot balls at the human sitting behind you trying to score, while running away.

wouldn't that be considered a distraction, or something...

[nathanww]

We're looking at an auto mode that basically drives away and uses the flags on the trailers to avoid hitting anything. We briefly considered trying to actually score, but decided that this would really just put us in a position of weakness(due to the difficulty in actually scoring autonomously and the stopping and restarting that would be neccesary to accomplish this)

[ExarKun666]

Originally Posted by nathanww

We're looking at an auto mode that basically drives away and uses the flags on the trailers to avoid hitting anything. We briefly considered trying to actually score, but decided that this would really just put us in a position of weakness(due to the difficulty in actually scoring autonomously and the stopping and restarting that would be neccesary to accomplish this)

Wow, our team actually thought of this ! However, we figured that shooting in a trailer would actually be easier then avoiding a trailer, especially with the unique floor surface.

[ExarKun666]

Is anyone just going to go straight, and hope not to get hit?

[ComradeNikolai]

Originally Posted by ExarKun666

Is anyone just going to go straight, and hope not to get hit?

If we go for "drive straight," I'll hope we get hit so I can try out our angle correction software.

[goodsky]

Due to the severe lack of bonus points in autonomous this year, we've decided to push most of our programming resources to assisting the drivers in teleoperated mode. So Autonomous will just be moving in the most unpredictable paths (away from opposing human players).

[mynameisbob]

We will be lucky if we even have an autonomous mode, therefore we will be happy to move anywhere from where we start.

[Booksy]

Originally Posted by mynameisbob

We will be lucky if we even have an autonomous mode, therefore we will be happy to move anywhere from where we start.

You should at least do the drive straight and crash version, otherwise you're a sitting duck, right at the other team's outpost.

[Tottanka]

We will be counting on those teams who have a lack of auto, or a fairly simple one that just drives away from the Human Players and try to track a stationary robot and get as close to it as possible.

Of course, that will only start after we spend 3-4 seconds running away from the payload specialist near us.

[ExarKun666]

Originally Posted by ComradeNikolai

If we go for "drive straight," I'll hope we get hit so I can try out our angle correction software.

Just straight, if I estimate the angle right you would hit into the outpost so you should throw a couple turns in there, maybe instead of just purposely getting hit just to test software, just use the angle corrector, but use another strategy and if you do other then straight, then you will be hit most assuredly!

[JesseK]

I'm really glad this thread finally evolved into a poll...

Our auton will seek to simply position ourselves in the correct spot for our strategy. As the regional progresses, we'll tweak it further for automatic target tracking. Since we could conceivably start in one of three configurations with one of four objectives, we're simply working on positioning ourselves for those objectives now and actually acquire the objectives later.

[team877]

I want to know who honestly thinks they're going to be precise enough with a camera this year to make some balls in the trailers. its going to be fairly difficult to complete that task.... i'd say focus on everything else rather than autonomous

[virtuald]

Originally Posted by team877

I want to know who honestly thinks they're going to be precise enough with a camera this year to make some balls in the trailers. its going to be fairly difficult to complete that task.... i'd say focus on everything else rather than autonomous

If you can get a shooter that is accurate in autonomous mode, theres no reason you can't use it during the teleoperated mode.

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by virtuald

If you can get a shooter that is accurate in autonomous mode, theres no reason you can't use it during the teleoperated mode.

There are several levels of play and a strategy for each.

1st level is the average regional eliminations. Where most teams do not have an auto mode and even moving can be hard for some.

2nd level is the final rounds of the regional, where most do well and most have some sort of auto mode.

3rd level is the division level finals at Atlanta. Where all do well and all have auto mode.

In 2007 we had the privilege of winning our division and going onto Einstein. That is where you see the exceptional teams do exceptional things, like shoot in auto mode. Not many can do it, maybe less than 1 out of 100, but things like that get you to Einstein.

Where in the first level it might now be worth trying to shoot at opponents, better shots later. But at the 3rd level that might be your best chance to shoot and make it.

Just some thoughts, I do appreciate this discussion.