Losing Communication

[Chief Pride]

My team, as well as others have run into this problem. Something on your robot loses power, and you lose communication. No one can really tell you what happened, because they don't know.

This is especially frustrating. I have done testing at our shop by unplugging the radio and plugging it back in, unplugging the drivers station and plugging it back in, even removing the power leads from the CRIO for a brief moment, then plugging it back in. In all situations the robot regained communication with the KOP router within 30-40 seconds.

How can that be? As anyone who has had this happen to them can tell you, the robot doesn't regain communication...

How can a team debug this issue, and expect to actually find the problem when it is impossible to recreate the problem without an actual field. There must be something that the FRC field is doing that our KOP routers are not, that disallows them to reconnect to the network. I want to know what that is, so that we can either recreate it, or possibly talk someone into disabling it.


Just curious if anyone knows the answer/wants to chime in.