After the atonamous mode do you get time to change back to useing the remote by useing the programmer with the computor or do you have to have that built into the program? If so how do you do it?
You build it into the program using this template ( http://www.vexrobotics.com/docs/vex-elevation/elevation-appendix-d-programming-guide.12082008.zip )
If you need any help with this further there are plenty of people here willing to help out.
Good luck,
You use the competition template for your programming. It has stubs or functions in the template that you put your Autonomous and Operator code.
The way it works:
- You plug your transmitter into the field control – this disables the transmitter
- You turn the robot on
– It is now in pre-autonomous mode and it’s looking for a transmitter signal - The field starts the timer and at the same time turns on your transmitter
- Your robot sees the transmitted signal and starts running the autonomous function you wrote in your code
- At the end of the time period the field turns off the transmitter
– Your robot sees the transmitter signal go away and stops the robot from moving any more - The field starts the next timer cycle and turns on your transmitter
- Your robot sees the new signal and starts running the Operator control function you wrote
– You drive your robot - At the end of the time period the field turns off the transmitter
– Your robot sees the transmitter signal go away and stops the robot from moving any more
And that’s how it works…
Tips – You get into autonomous mode by reseting the microcontroller, either by turning off and back on or having too much current draw for the battery and the robot reseting itself. This is the common problem we see in matches where the robot keeps going back into autonomous mode
If you think the field is NOT turning on your transmitter on, UNPLUG it from the field. This will release it from field control and turn the transmitter on (assuming that the power switch is on, you have put a battery in it and the battery is charged)