Next Game Autonomous Mode

[RyanCahoon]

Originally Posted by MaxMax161

Dose anyone think that next years FRC game should/will incorporate a larger focus on programing and building the robots to be more independent?

Should they? Absolutely. Will they? Probably not; the usual argument given is that the GDC likes to make sure that all the games are at least playable to some degree by rookie teams who may not have a lot of experience. May this would be possible if the default code included a useful default autonomous routine, the same way the default code includes basic driving code by default. They have actually done similar things in the past, such as including auto-targeting code for the years that have included vision targets, but the level of adoption by teams is still fairly low, as you point out. A lot of the challenge here is finding a way to provide code that will work on all designs of robots.

You allude to this, but an interesting way to put more importance on autonomous function is to make the end game autonomous. Seattle Robotics Society is hosting a "FIRST-like" game that includes this feature. I'm very interested to see what kinds of entries are generated.

--Ryan