New Team Not Using Camera

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by 663.keith

although it would seem in practical, couldn't a team potentially take one of the magnetic tetras off, and then stack it? This would give a maximum autonomous mode point value of 37

Yes, you are correct.

[Collmandoman]

max auto = capping center~ then you have 5 tetras left-- capping your back center - capping your opponets corners and the other 2 in the middle..
6*3=18 + 6*10= 60 78 points
190 will do it

[team1405]

Last year we didn't focus on autonomous and just let our mentors from RIT mess around with it. It wasn't until the championship we tried to get up on the platform during autonomous, but we actually ended up breaking one of our drive chains. Point it you can do it w/o autonomous, and autonomous DOES open you up to some damage with other robots (collisions during dueling autonomous modes aren't uncommon,) but overall you SHOULD focus on the human element and once you have a strategy down for that THEN focus on autonomous mode.

[russell]

Last year we were a rookie team, and we really did not see that much advantage to autonomous. When we actually went to the competition and saw the number of robots that actually had functional autonomous (that knocked the ball off the tee) we concluded that FIRST had not intended it to be that difficult. But when we got picked by another high placed rookie team for the finals, they sent one of their mentors over to help, and he showed us how to write a quick and simple program to drive forward and block another robot from knocking a ball off.

The Moral of the story is that Although the program didnt work perfectly, it still got us halfway down the field, which later allowed us to score 15-20 points we otherwise would not have.

However I do strongly recomend that unless you are on a finals aliance where you know your partners, you should definetly have an off switch for your autonomous program, so you dont risk interfering with your aliance members robots.