[FTC]: Playing Forensic Roboticist.

[jbbjjbt]

Phil,
We have never seen what you describe, and we've run the fms hundreds of times trying to get the autonomous to do what we tell it. Teleop always runs fine after autonomous. We see the opposite alot, where autonomous doesn't run on the first try. Removing the battery etc seems to make autonomous more reliable but is a big pain when you are running mutlitple times to tweek your autonomous.

Also we've been in three competitions (VA, DE, and MD) with two robots and haven't seen it in competition. At Delaware, many other teams had issues which they now claim were due to faulty USB hubs. We did loose control once near the end of a run when a robot ran into the wall, which supports their faulty usb hub theory.

Does the nxt look like it's running? Have you tried adding a lego motor and see if it responds? Have you tried with the Logetech controllers directly into the computer rather versus in a USB hub or vise versa. We seem to be having an issue on our laptop with the USB ports getting loose due to all the plugging and unplugging.

Jon