What Are You Doing During Autonomous Period?

[umangv620]

Position 1:
Move foward, kick. repeat 1 times.
Position 2:
Move foward, kick. repeat 2 times.
Position 3:
Move foward, kick. repeat 3 times.

Thats it. Simple, right? wrong.

[Tom Line]

I think you might want to stick "aim" in there at some point, but even if you can't aim you should have the ability to at least kick or push 1 ball into the goal since you're free to line everything up in a straight line anyway.

[santosh]

As of right now, our kicker is cocking back to full discharge position and it blindly firing into the stands. This is not safe. refer back to my other posts about safety being for squares: comprised of the 4 staples in safety including Proper training, proper attire, common sense, and protection.

[eugenebrooks]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

I think you might want to stick "aim" in there at some point, but even if you can't aim you should have the ability to at least kick or push 1 ball into the goal since you're free to line everything up in a straight line anyway.

You also need to think about not blocking
the kicks of your alliance partners during
autonomous.

[AmoryG]

Our autonomous program isn't completely debugged, but we've programmed it so that it should drive toward a ball, stop when our ball detector sensor detects something, aim at the goal with our vision tracking, kick, realign, then loop that depending on what zone we're in. We also sort of programmed encoders to track our position in autonomous mode so we don't go too far (especially if our gyro or something else goes wacky and we end up crossing zones).

[Kibaspirit]

Our robot goes to one side to find the wall (We have mechanum wheels) then tracks and shoots a ball. It can clear a bump. [:

[EricWilliams]

We will be doing something fantastic in autonomous! Hopefully.

[Foster]

As of last night our first routine:

• Arms the kicker (We come on the field with air)
• Rolls forward at 1/2 speed to the first ball
• Kicks towards the goal
• Rearms the kicker for teleop
• Stops

We also have a end of match routine that "kicks" one last time so that the robot is safe to move by the crew.

[3286]

Well to be honest, as I type this...we will be hoping that something functions as intended and hasn't caught fire or broken in half!

I had to throw that out there, if half of us are half as tired and have spent half as much time as what I suspect working thru this project, then there are a whole lot of us out there who need a day to rest and recharge!

GOOD LUCK

Mike

[oddjob]

Re: What Are You Doing During Autonomous Period?

I'm watching the match, that's what I'm doing.

With luck, the robot will be moving and kicking.

[jspatz1]

Kicking all the balls that are in our zone into the goal.

[thefro526]

Crying - Because we don't have an autonomous mode.

Or

Yelling - Because our programmer didn't make an autonomous mode.

It's 50/50 either way.

[Big Kid]

Originally Posted by thefro526

Crying - Because we don't have an autonomous mode.

Or

Yelling - Because our programmer didn't make an autonomous mode.

It's 50/50 either way.

Or he going to be proud because I have an untested autonomous mode that should work in two out of three positions

[PAR_WIG1350]

I was told we are programing auto in Boston. Might get done before then. I don't know.

[Radical Pi]

At the moment? Nothing. When we can get it working? Kick, drive forward, Kick, drive forward, kick. Our robot is short enough that we probably don't have to worry about getting out of the way