Post URL to your autonomous mode

[Doug Leppard]

I just love the autonomous modes and love watching other robots do it. So I thought I would commit our team to putting together a video of all the various teams doing their auto mode.

I already started this but realized how much work it was searching for all the videos and knew I would miss some good ones.

So to be part of this 2007 autonomous video please do the following:

• All videos must be from official 2007 competitions, no practice videos.
• All videos must be downloadable like from Soap videos. Give the URL.
• Want both auto mode delivering the ringer and defending successfully from a bot delivering ringer (a hard task).
• One video per team of one time auto mode, we will use only 15 seconds max at a time. So choose your best onetime video.
• Exceptions:
• Video of two or more teams a ringer on a side.
• Exceptional or funny auto mode actions (like the dance one team did) or taking out a ref (wait that is not funny).
• Give your team number, how auto mode is done (i.e. cmucam sonar or luck)
• Give team stats on success rate etc.

I CAN NOT USE YOUTUBE VIDEOS. SO DON'T SEND ME THOSE URLS.

Not sure if we will use all the stats, but we will look at them and get our creative crew on it (well I haven't told them yet about this but once I push submit they will hear about it).

Looking forward to seeing these videos and seeing the whole thing together.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Here's several, choose from what you will, QF19 and F1-3 are my favorites:

QF19
QF1-3
SF1-1
SF1-2
F1-3

[Elgin Clock]

Can I just post the IP address of our robot and you can download it direct to see it?

[JBotAlan]

I am not going to link to video because my auton consisted of this one line of code:

ARM_RecallPreset(7);

It unfolded the arm, saving us ~8 seconds of the teleop period. I hope to have something a tad sweeter for IRI, though.

JBot

[Starke]

Greater Rochester Robotics:

Team #340
Viewable
Download

Team #424
Viewable
Download


Both done with camera tracking

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by Starke340

Greater Rochester Robotics:

Team #340
Viewable
Download

Team #424
Viewable
Download


Both done with camera tracking

Both look good.

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by JBotAlan

I am not going to link to video because my auton consisted of this one line of code:

ARM_RecallPreset(7);

It unfolded the arm, saving us ~8 seconds of the teleop period. I hope to have something a tad sweeter for IRI, though.

JBot

Good move on your auto mode, but you are right that is not what we are looking for.

We did that one year and gives the team some advantage.

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Can I just post the IP address of our robot and you can download it direct to see it?

Sure.

[1629coalition]

This is 1629's auto-mode on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC3bwTTS2lQ

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by 1629coalition

This is 1629's auto-mode on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC3bwTTS2lQ

Good video, but I can not download youtube, at least I don't know how. Also be sure to tell me the method (IE camera).

[Kristian Calhoun]

Here is a autonomous compilation video that I recently made, showcasing our successful caps. In order, from the video's sequence, the matches are:

NJ Match 39 (This keeper actually didn't count, as it was supported by the stinger.
NJ Match 11
UTC Match 64 (One bot from each alliance capping, us on blue, 1124 on red.)
Galileo Match 22 (Nice close up shot.)
Galileo Match 82
Galileo Match 90* (1126 positions correctly, but knocks off their keeper as they back away. We cap ours on the same alliance.)
UTC Match 52**
NJ Finals 1*
NJ Finals 2***

Match 52 from Galileo, Match 52, and the NJ Finals are my favorites. (I'm still amazed at how we scored in match 52 after slamming into the rack and pulling up from beneath the spider.) As for our method, we used a single ultrasonic sensor to determine the proper distance from the base of the rack. During the matches at NJ, we used the CMUcam to align left/right towards the light, if it were in the view of the camera, and if not it would proceed to use the sonic sensor code. At UTC, we experienced camera troubles, and decided to just use the sonic sensors, and try our best to determine/guess where the spider leg would be after the rack had been moved. At championships, we solely used this method, and scored during 3 out of our 7 qualification matches.

The asterisks indicate my preference on which are the most entertaining to be used for the video, three stars being the highest.

[Doug Leppard]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

Here is a autonomous compilation video that I recently made, showcasing our successful caps. In order, from the video's sequence, the matches are:

NJ Match 39 (This keeper actually didn't count, as it was supported by the stinger.
NJ Match 11
UTC Match 64 (One bot from each alliance capping, us on blue, 1124 on red.)
Galileo Match 22 (Nice close up shot.)
Galileo Match 82
Galileo Match 90* (1126 positions correctly, but knocks off their keeper as they back away. We cap ours on the same alliance.)
UTC Match 52**
NJ Finals 1*
NJ Finals 2***

SOAP is currently down, which has the video of UTC Match 64, and the NJ Final Rounds. If it is not back up soon, I could get you the videos by uploading them to a file sharing site or possibly our team website (AIM file transfers also work). Match 52 from Galileo, Match 52, and the NJ Finals are my favorites. (I'm still amazed at how we scored in match 52 after slamming into the rack and pulling up from beneath the spider.) As for our method, we used a single ultrasonic sensor to determine the proper distance from the base of the rack. During the matches at NJ, we used the CMUcam to align left/right towards the light, if it were in the view of the camera, and if not it would proceed to use the sonic sensor code. At UTC, we experienced camera troubles, and decided to just use the sonic sensors, and try our best to determine/guess where the spider leg would be after the rack had been moved. At championships, we solely used this method, and scored during 3 out of our 7 qualification matches.

The asterisks indicate my preference on which are the most entertaining to be used for the video, three stars being the highest.

Great compilation video. Tell me when the others are ready.

[Guy Davidson]

Sorry to bump up an old thread, but I think this is the best place to ask this question. All of you who had butt-kicking autonomous modes last years, what did you use? Which sensors, custom circuits, and special logic? What pointers would you have that generally lead to a quality autonomous mode?

Thanks

[Doug Leppard]

#1 best secret. Hardware done by end of week five, that gave us a week to practice driving and auto mode. Auto mode just takes time. So dependable hardware and done with enough time to spend lots of time perfecting it.

#2 we had a 3/4 size field to practice auto mode.

#3 we used easyproC for fast developing and more people could do it.

#4 we proto typed lots of sensors using vex to when we go the hardware we didn't start from scratch but knew what we could do and not do with sensors and had routines working.

For 2007 we used the camera. 2006 we used gyro mainly. Previous years we use IR sensors and wheel encoders. Really depends on the contest. We have also tested sonic sensors.

Suggest practice using vex with all the sensors to get a feel for them.

[Guy Davidson]

Very interesting. Thanks Doug. Obviously we'd love to (and hopefully will) have the hardware done by the end of week five. We're planning to do our own thing with a coprocessor this year, so we're starting it early to give us time to work out kinks. We'll definitely try to get some time on a practice field and test as many sensors as we think we might use, so we can use them if we need to.