[FTC]: Autonomous Ideas?

[RRLedford]

Originally Posted by JesseK

I will grant you that your mode will work for your first couple of qualification matches (and perhaps also against an elim opponent that isn't paying attention). However, there is an extremely simple autonomous counter:

Noob team 10001 creates a "drive straight for 1.5 seconds after a 5 second delay" autonomous. The robots collide. Your team gets only 25 points for position + rolling goal batons and a possible possession penalty if the timing is right. You may win auto mode by 10-15 points, however you've left yourself in the precarious position of having easy defense played on you for the rest of the match.

Well with a high center that lets us easily traverse the mountain or either tilt bridge. 4-motor drive, the snow plow effect of the goal in front of us and more than one programmed route to the middle dispenser, the defense against up may not be as easy as you make it sound.

Of course we have anticipated this We are adding a 2nd conveyor on opposite side of bot now for this very reason - giving us more route options in autonomous mode. Plus we still have some serious scoring ability once the teleop mode starts, and we still have our goal fully entangled and ready to drive whereever we need to go next.

-Dick Ledford