Autonomous Planning

[Radical Pi]

Originally Posted by ideasrule

I was saying that the robot can read the score off the screen. The score is always kept at the bottom of the screen, in white, against the same background, year after year.

There can be any number of things blocking the screen, especially with the score being on the bottom. Also, there is no guarantee within the FMS or the scorekeeper that the scoring display will always be showing. Also, it means dedicating a periodical scan of the arena for the score, stopping what you are doing to look for it. Having humans provide the data is so much easier and I doubt anyone would complain about something with that. Perhaps we can lobby the GDC to provide the score live to the robots for next year

With the encoder thing, if an encoder starts returning 0 speed constantly, any PID loop that uses that encoder spins out of control. A serious issue to think about.