What Are You Doing During Autonomous Period?

[davidthefat]

I think we are just going to spin for 15 seconds, compressing air during that time... We cant track the ball and our kicker isnt even accurate, we are just bombing it toward the goal...

[apalrd]

We are going to kick our balls, then do something else. Our selector switches select that something else, so it will vary, but there will be no more than 4 of those something elses per position. I would suggest at least getting/starting out of your partners way in case they want to kick balls.

[reversed_rocker]

we have a vacuum on our robot that makes for great consistency in the autonomous mode. our robot has a photo transistor on the front to detect balls that are in the vacuum, so we just line them up, go straight, grab a ball, kick, and move on to the next one. there are switches on the driver station that tell the robot what zone its in, so it stops after it hits the proper number of balls and raises the kicking mechanism for close shots.

[O'Sancheski]

we are going to drive up to the bump and turn to get over to the ball return to setup for our strategy

[hyperdude]

As far as I am aware, our programmer has not done anything for autonomous. I think there's been a few ideas floating around, but now all we're going to be able to do is wait til April 1 to test any of them (our robot is crated up and ready for tomorrow).

[umangv620]

Position 1:
Move foward, kick. repeat 1 times.
Position 2:
Move foward, kick. repeat 2 times.
Position 3:
Move foward, kick. repeat 3 times.

Thats it. Simple, right? wrong.

[Tom Line]

I think you might want to stick "aim" in there at some point, but even if you can't aim you should have the ability to at least kick or push 1 ball into the goal since you're free to line everything up in a straight line anyway.

[santosh]

As of right now, our kicker is cocking back to full discharge position and it blindly firing into the stands. This is not safe. refer back to my other posts about safety being for squares: comprised of the 4 staples in safety including Proper training, proper attire, common sense, and protection.

[eugenebrooks]

Originally Posted by Tom Line

I think you might want to stick "aim" in there at some point, but even if you can't aim you should have the ability to at least kick or push 1 ball into the goal since you're free to line everything up in a straight line anyway.

You also need to think about not blocking
the kicks of your alliance partners during
autonomous.

[AmoryG]

Our autonomous program isn't completely debugged, but we've programmed it so that it should drive toward a ball, stop when our ball detector sensor detects something, aim at the goal with our vision tracking, kick, realign, then loop that depending on what zone we're in. We also sort of programmed encoders to track our position in autonomous mode so we don't go too far (especially if our gyro or something else goes wacky and we end up crossing zones).

[Kibaspirit]

Our robot goes to one side to find the wall (We have mechanum wheels) then tracks and shoots a ball. It can clear a bump. [:

[EricWilliams]

We will be doing something fantastic in autonomous! Hopefully.

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

I think we are just going to spin for 15 seconds, compressing air during that time... We cant track the ball and our kicker isnt even accurate, we are just bombing it toward the goal...

You shouldn't need to track the ball. It starts exactly where you put it every match.

You are also allowed to precharge your pneumatics, so you shouldn't need to use auto mode to do that.

What my team WAS going to do in auto was to have several modes with an adjustable 0-15 series of switches for delay. Then we got the kicker working an hour before we had to crate, and we still lack a posession mechanism. So... probably just 3 autos, "kick em forward".

[GGCO]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

You shouldn't need to track the ball. It starts exactly where you put it every match.

You are also allowed to precharge your pneumatics, so you shouldn't need to use auto mode to do that.

What my team WAS going to do in auto was to have several modes with an adjustable 0-15 series of switches for delay. Then we got the kicker working an hour before we had to crate, and we still lack a posession mechanism. So... probably just 3 autos, "kick em forward".

Rule please?

[Radical Pi]

Originally Posted by GGCO

Rule please?

<G09> BALL Starting Positions – Prior to the MATCH, each ALLIANCE is provided with six BALLS to be placed on the FIELD.

Lots of people have been confused on this one. It says the ALLIANCE places the balls

<R75> *snip*The compressor may be mounted on the ROBOT, or it may be left off the ROBOT and used to pre-charge compressed air in the storage tanks prior to bringing the ROBOT onto the FIELD. Off-board compressors must be controlled and powered by the ROBOT.

Basically, you can use another compressor as long as it is powered and controlled by the robot while off the field