What did you learn from watching week 0.5 events? What surprised you?
I figured out:
More gears were dropped than I expected.
Pilots don’t always pay close attention.
Field reset crew will be working hard. (Again)
Reset will likely be slow, especially the first weeks.
Fewer teams than I expected shot for the high goal. (Although the gears weren’t complete)
Fuel WILL be shot out of the field.
Scoring is going to be outrageously high.
So, how about you?
Seems about the same as all the Week 0 threads from last weekend.
RIP FMS
Driver visibility wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be
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Field Management System
They had terrible problems with the field.
Would you like to clarify?
Might have just been a Kettering limited problem; from the very short spurts of webcast they showed, multiple robots were having trouble connecting to the field.
The SCRRF Scrimmage last weekend also had connection issues the first day. It took three hours to find and implement a fix.
What was the problem and what was the fix?
And was it using an official FMS or FMS offseason?
Remember to update your driver stations and radio firmware, folks!
Running the offseason version of FMS.
Other than a few “E-Stop bug” strikes, I want to say that the problem was the radios losing their something-or-other (encryption, I think–but I wasn’t real close in on those discussions) and having to be reconfigured. Usually after a reconfigure they’d be good for a while.
Where online can I watch the week 0.5 regionals?
Thanks,
Taggerun
Assuming you’re referring to the Kettering event, 95% of the problems were caused entirely by issues with team radios and/or driver stations.
It looked like they had allot of problems during the official event too. It was archived on the firstinspires twitch page (if I remember correctly) I’m not sure what the problems were exactly, but at least once the teams went through auto and didn’t move during teleop. The match was replayed. There were quite a few of them replayed. Not entirely sure why, but it looked like field issues