Hot Zone Strategy

[irvingc]

Originally Posted by PVCpirate

Something relevant which we may need a Q&A for: how is the order of the HOT GOALS determined? I assume it's random but I'm not sure if it's stated explicitly in the manual.

Section 3.1.4:

the first pair to be HOT is determined randomly by the FMS

[MikeE]

Originally Posted by Chadfrom308

We are planning on getting there within the first 5 seconds and shooting (low goal) if the light sensor senses that it is tripped (hot goal active on current side) and have an 8 second timeout if the sensor doesn't get tripped at all for whatever reason

Camera never works for us for one reason or another and I don't see why it is necessary for this year

Your team should check out the software documentation resources of WPIlib this year. It includes extensive documentation of vision processing including full code examples for hot zone detection in Labview, C++ & Java.

[Big Ideas]

Set up to move to a specific low goal (or high)
Move at start and get there within 3 sec.
Check for the Hot Spot --Yes=dump no= wait
wait for hot (if was no) dump when YES.
Setup for start of teleop.

[irvingc]

Originally Posted by DavisC

Goalie's won't exist on your own side during Autonomous.

Per the Glossary:

GOALIE ZONE: the area in front of an ALLIANCE’S ALLIANCE WALL, bounded by the opponent’s LOW GOALS and black tape.