[EWCP] Autonomous Mode and You!

[Andrew Schreiber]

Tonight at 9pm Eastern you should join us for our cast on Autonomous Modes featuring some of the heavy hitters from around FIRST. Here's the plan https://trello.com/c/VcjhvolJ and here's the place http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web...d=98466&cmd=tc

I'll also include the outline below but check the Trello link for the most up to date version.

• How do you plan what you'll do?
  
• How do you define your strategy?
  
• What sort of sensors are most useful?
  
• What sort of algorithms are good for doing filtering on those sensors?
  
• What tolerances are acceptable?
  
• How much risk is tolerable?
  
• How do you decide these things?
  
• How do you handle mechanical/electrical failures?
  
• How do you effectively utilize the capabilities of your robot?
  
• What autonomous functions do you use in tele-operated mode?
  
• How do you test your autonomous mode?
  
• How much testing is required before an auton is run on the field?
  
• How many autons do you have? How do you select them?
  
• Chris, what tools do you use for your simulation?
  
• Palardy, when creating scripting languages do they need to be real languages or can you cheat?
  
• Jared, what impact does vision processing have on your auton?
  
• Zach, what is the best way to start realizing that you can move in any direction? How do you utilize the omni directional capabilities of your robot effectively?
  
• For your 50th percentile FRC team (think Brave Little Toaster) how much of this is possible?
  
• What recommendations do you have for the BLTs out there to improve their autonomous modes?
  
• Is building a practice robot important for autonomous mode success?
  
• Do you see autonomous mode becoming more important (ala 2008) or less (2007)