End Game Bonus/Autonomous Discussion

[goodsky]

Originally Posted by =Martin=Taylor=

= You can line up your robot and balls and knock them into the goal one at a time. No worries about robots getting in your way. Heck, you don't even need sensors. I'm sure a dead-reckoning robot could easily be programmed to drive a short distance and fire a kicker.

I agree to a degree here. I am glad that the target will be stationary unlike last year, and we will not need to sense where the target or the balls are because we can anticipate basically the same position! This will be great!

There is one factor that I am a bit worried about. If you are in the far field, then you will have two alliance robots in front of you. Plus a likely near field strategy will be to simply move up to bump the ball into the goal. If that robot remains there, then they will be an obstacle to all the team members behind it. That being said, like they mention in the video, it would be nice to move out of the way after you do your deal in autonomous. A cool addition would be to have variable timers on all alliance robots for autonomous, that way you can coordinate your plans, so no balls get blocked.