Apologies if this is a dupe thread, I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s had this concern but I couldn’t find any threads with a similar question. There are four unique starting positions on the Turning Point arena. How exactly do I go about telling my robot where it’s starting from at the beginn…

Human interaction with your robot is perfectly acceptable before the match starts. As for exact ideas to solve your problem, the viable methods are heavily dependent on what electronics system you’re using – Cortex or V5.

I’m using VCS with a V5 Brain. Pretty much all of the electronics on our robot are V5.

V5 rocks in this regard but not in others. Because the field is symmetric you only have to ‘perfect’ two and simply reverse the direction of the turns. with our cortex we used a potentiometer as a selector but this doesn’t work w/V5 so we had to create & run 4 different files. For ‘knowing’ - we …

That does certainly help, thank you! We were just gonna experiment constantly with different autonomous drafts rather than zeroing and taking down readings. This doesn’t solve the main problem, unfortunately… Having four separate files just doesn’t seem too reasonable long-term. Surely there has to…

agree - I #just posted questions/ code for our auto selector based on potentiometer values - this may help should it work for you? void autonomous( void ) { autoSelect = Selector.value(analogUnits::range12bit); if(autoSelect <=800){ //BLUE 2 autoB(-1);} else if (autoSelect >800 &&…

I was going to implement a method where the brain displays four squares, and you select which square you’re on prior to the autonomous period. I’m not exactly sure where to place this however, since pre_auton() runs asynchronously from autonomous().

[image] poodlebytes: agree - I #just posted questions/ code for our auto selector based on potentiometer values - this may help should it work for you? Actually yeah, just having the potentiometer already in position prior to starting the game would be totally viable. I’ll see what I can do!

V5 - VCS look at this code: WalshBots Autonomous Feature selector It is a good starting point for configuring what your V5 robot does during autonomous.

wow - box selector would be neat! Not sure how different from brain’s default except only one program to maintain… Pre-Auto simply runs once doesn’t it? We start a task in pre-auto to echo the selector → controller Be aware our pot selector doesn’t work properly - likely our code

just found this reply - hope it’d be of interest 2U [image] WalshBots Autonomous Feature Selector VEX Coding Studio Tech Support James Pearman posted an example of autonomous selection using the V5 Robot Brain. It allows up to eight different routines to be selected before…

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just found this reply - hope it’d be of interest 2U