What Are You Doing During Autonomous Period?

[davidthefat]

I think we are just going to spin for 15 seconds, compressing air during that time... We cant track the ball and our kicker isnt even accurate, we are just bombing it toward the goal...

[apalrd]

We are going to kick our balls, then do something else. Our selector switches select that something else, so it will vary, but there will be no more than 4 of those something elses per position. I would suggest at least getting/starting out of your partners way in case they want to kick balls.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

I think we are just going to spin for 15 seconds, compressing air during that time... We cant track the ball and our kicker isnt even accurate, we are just bombing it toward the goal...

You shouldn't need to track the ball. It starts exactly where you put it every match.

You are also allowed to precharge your pneumatics, so you shouldn't need to use auto mode to do that.

What my team WAS going to do in auto was to have several modes with an adjustable 0-15 series of switches for delay. Then we got the kicker working an hour before we had to crate, and we still lack a posession mechanism. So... probably just 3 autos, "kick em forward".

[reversed_rocker]

we have a vacuum on our robot that makes for great consistency in the autonomous mode. our robot has a photo transistor on the front to detect balls that are in the vacuum, so we just line them up, go straight, grab a ball, kick, and move on to the next one. there are switches on the driver station that tell the robot what zone its in, so it stops after it hits the proper number of balls and raises the kicking mechanism for close shots.

[O'Sancheski]

we are going to drive up to the bump and turn to get over to the ball return to setup for our strategy

[hyperdude]

As far as I am aware, our programmer has not done anything for autonomous. I think there's been a few ideas floating around, but now all we're going to be able to do is wait til April 1 to test any of them (our robot is crated up and ready for tomorrow).

[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