Poll: Best Autonomous(read the 1st post before voting)

[ericand]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

That's who I thought of but they turned it off for the championship.
Why isn't 1126 on this list?

Actually, 1425 didn't turn it off. Our lower ultra sonic sensor wasn't working correctly (possibly due to a change we made to strengthen the front end). Looking at the video, I think it almost worked in one match after we made some adjustments, but that match a defensive auto mode pushed the spider legs towards us so we were too close to score.

We really didn't want to change much since we were doing so well in all other respects. In hind sight, the reward may have outweighed the risk.

Our system consisted of 4 ultra-sonic sensors. One low on the robot, aimed to detect the base of the rack. 3 right below our gripper to detect the foot. The basic program for auto mode went like this:

deploy the gripper/tube
start to move the tube to scoring height
start moving forward - timed -
this lets us ignore our lower sensor while it calibrated
and prevented false readings in case it saw the gripper deploy.
using the lower sensor - drive to within scoring distance of the rack
using the upper sensor pod, center the robot on the nearest spider foot
robot turns right/left to seek the foot
If foot found, lower gripper - release tube - wait for auto to end
else release tube regardless at 14.5 seconds

The upper sensors were read by a custom curcuit which fed back 2 bits of target data
to the RC. The data that came back represented the possible foot locations from the
sensor pod's point of view:
Center
Right
Left
Unknown

The original plan was to have more info go back to the RC but our first cut at the communications
did not work and we ran out of time.

[Sislith]

i vote 1126 as well, why are they not on the list they were consistent

[jagman2882]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

That's who I thought of but they turned it off for the championship.
Why isn't 1126 on this list?

i was wondering that too!!!

i think that we hit on like 85% to 90% throughout the whole year(maybe a little high but im just guessing)

but ne who

[Barry Bonzack]

I put my voice in for 1902, the accuracy on that hog was outstanding. I would also like to give my honorable mention to 386 with the "cool" factor. Many teams have Easy Buttons in their driver station, but not many teams have a functional Easy Button on their robot that they use as a sensor for autonomous mode.

[travis48elite]

I would also have chosen Team 67 they had an awesome autonomous, although they might have not been one of the fastest in scoring, they were reliable and usually mixed it up between the middle and lower spider to keep the defending teams in autonomous guessing where they would score.

[ldeffenb]

Originally Posted by 0705920

Please look at the videos of teams from www.thebluealliance.com and then vote.

I'd love to view the videos and post an educated vote, but the site above has been down for days. Any alternate link to the videos?

Lynn (D) - Team Voltage 386

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by ldeffenb

I'd love to view the videos and post an educated vote, but the site above has been down for days. Any alternate link to the videos?

The correct link is thebluealliance.net.

[Doug Leppard]

I am putting together a video of all the various bots auto modes. See the thread below:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=57184

I already have collected myself 33,39, 79. 116, 340, 341, 386. 424. 1629, 1730, 1902 which came out of this discussion.

Go to the thread and add your URL to your video to be added to the video we are making. Please read the rules.

[JesseK]

1902 dropped theirs every other time I saw them in Vegas and Atlanta. 39 hit their autonomous every single time I saw them in Vegas and Atlanta. I didn't really pay attention to the others. I admit that I'm only judging on accuracy, because in the end unless you can score twice in autonomous or have something extremely valuable to do afterwards, speed & coolness don't matter so long as scoring happens.

340 comes in a close 2nd due to their auto-code's correction after they were "defended" against in Atlanta. That showed true camera calibration and state control, something that's hard to master without several run-time iterations of obscure scenarios.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by JesseK

1902 dropped theirs every other time I saw them in Vegas and Atlanta. 39 hit their autonomous every single time I saw them in Vegas and Atlanta. I didn't really pay attention to the others. I admit that I'm only judging on accuracy, because in the end unless you can score twice in autonomous or have something extremely valuable to do afterwards, speed & coolness don't matter so long as scoring happens.

If you consult some of the video posted on the Blue Alliance and SOAP you will see that 1902 was actually more accurate than 39.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by JesseK

1902 dropped theirs every other time I saw them in Vegas and Atlanta. 39 hit their autonomous every single time I saw them in Vegas and Atlanta. I didn't really pay attention to the others. I admit that I'm only judging on accuracy, because in the end unless you can score twice in autonomous or have something extremely valuable to do afterwards, speed & coolness don't matter so long as scoring happens.

I would have said the opposite--I don't think 1902 missed more than once (maybe twice) the entire competition at Vegas

[Doug Leppard]

I have been working on a video of the autnomous robots. Here is a post on an update:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...854#post633854

[Doug Leppard]

I have the first rough pass at the autnomous video. Go to this thread for the url and discussion on the video.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...082#post634082

Once we get the final I will post for all of CD.