Autonomous modes.

[computer-whisperer]

We need to start figuring out how we want to tackle autonomous, in general. In previous years we have had three or four distinct autonomous routines, with a handful of adjustable parameters on the dashboard software. This year, however, we will need to work closely with our alliance partners even in autonomous mode. This means that we will need large amounts of flexibility in whatever setup we make.

I think it is still a good idea to have a few distinct, hardcoded autonomous routines (Do nothing, drive forward, etc), but then also have one extremely flexible module that you can customize from the driver station.

Ideas?

[u6bkep]

do we have any way to reliably orient to the field?

[computer-whisperer]

Somewhat, it all depends on how the robot starts. If we plan to have a gyro of some kind (and we need to discuss that, as i think we will want to get a better one than we had last year) we will be able to spin the robot to whatever angle we want as long as we have a known and reliable start point

[u6bkep]

if we started up against one wall and the scoring platform, we could know pretty accurately where we are.