Losing Communication

[Chief Pride]

At the Michigan State Championships we were seeing our robot drop out light a lightbulb from just driving around. It was caused by an 1/8th inch aluminum L bracket holding the radio. When we drove around apparently it caused enough vibration to disrupt the signal.

As soon as this information was found we immediately stopped using the bracket, and all seemed to be fixed.

With our new robot at MARC we died twice, both times after bumping into a wall, both times were very, very minor crashes. 1/10th of that seen through the rest of the competition with collisions of robots.

I don't think this is a configuration of the components. I am sure we have a connection problem somewhere, we have already found two. I am still curious why the FRC field software will not let your robot reconnect to the network after losing comms.