My team is brand new to V5, and we have no idea what to do for auton. I was initially thinking to have it drive backwards from the start until it hits a mobile goal (it would use a limit switch to detect it), and then simply turn until a vision sensor detects a ring of the alliance color, then drive forward into it with the intake and conveyor belt system on, and once it no longer sees it, it keeps spinning the conveyor belt for a little bit to make sure its’s on, then repeat. is this viable? I’m completely in the dark here.
That seems like a reasonable plan, our auton is similar, we also use limit switches to detect the goal and it works pretty well. I recommend doing lots of testing on individual sections before combining it all, like testing the vision sensor and spinning to see the ring on its own so that you know each section of your plan works well before bringing it all together, otherwise it is hard to know where the errors cpuld be occuring.
While it’s a cool idea to have the robot make decisions on the fly with the vision sensor, it would probably be inefficient and could potentially make the robot drive over the autonomous line. Most teams will hand-pick a route for the robot to follow, then make the robot “blindly” drive that route without using sensors to find rings or anything. This works fine because the game objects always start in the same spots, and gets rid of the hassle of object tracking. You could also still just do it for fun though.
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