I am a student at Colorado School of Mines, and I competed in VRC all four years of high school. I am looking to start a VAIC-U team at my school. Does anyone who participated in the pilot program have any advice? Did you enjoy VAIC? What issues (besides COVID) did you face? What did you think of t…

I am no expert on vex ai, but you might want to read this thread. [image] The Future Of VexAI General Forum This last season has been a challenging year for all Vex teams. Nonetheless, we should look out for the future and what it holds. Covid-19 has been detrimental to V…

I have read through that one. The thread has some really good discussion about last season. I did not want to disrupt the thread with new team questions. If DRow wants to merge, that is up to him.

I’d just look at what the RECF puts out about next year before making your decision. The program will mature into something different as years go by. It is unclear exactly what vaic will look like next year. For the most part, it’s a good programming challenge. If all you want to do is program, I mi…

[image] Trent: it’s a good programming challenge. If all you want to do is program, I might suggest doing something else. Could you elaborate on this a bit? I am a MechE with decent experience in programming. That being said, I am primarily interested in the building challenge. However, I am…

It may be surprising but, as of last year vaic had no ai. If all you want to do is ai, I would recommend something else. With that, it is possible to deploy something like a neural network to detect objects with a vex robot. The caveat being you will have to start from scratch. This could require a …

[image] Trent: vaic had no ai Due to lack of raw data, I assumed that it would be highly simplified and not Amazon-Robotics-caliber AI. Since the robots did not have AI, how would you describe the setup?

[image] natebot: how would you describe the setup? I’d say it’s more of a black box. They give you the stuff you need. Then you have to code how the robot interprets the data (x, y pos; heading; detected objects) from that black box.

That makes sense. I expected that most teams would do something along those lines. Without a simulated field environment and loads of data, AI isn’t really possible. However, I hoped that incorporating machine learning/AI-like software would be more of a possibility. One of my friends has developed …

[image] natebot: Without a simulated field environment and loads of data, AI isn’t really possible. This is one of my biggest issues. [image] natebot: Do you plan on competing in vaic next year? For the most part, I like to write software more than build robots. Since vaic isn’t quite…

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9MotorGang March 20, 2021, 2:28am 2

I am no expert on vex ai, but you might want to read this thread.

@DRow maybe merge these?