Our mobility auto (just driving out of the community) is very important. If we are playing with a team who is very good at balancing, it is very possible that our best auto would be to score a game piece and then do mobility. Unfortunately, right now it sucks.
The "balance a cube on the back of the robot and ram it into the grid to score" technique worked surprisingly well at Mac, the main issue was exiting the community. There is a big bump in the field on the outside of the charge station, and hitting it at speed jerks the robot and changes it's angle. At Mac this led to us crashing sideways into the charge station, stopping our teammate from balancing.
The mobility auto needs to be rewritten so the robot doesn't jerk so much while going over the bump. Since we normally have a lot of time left after mobility auto, it might be enough to fix this issue just by driving really slowly.
If driving slowly doesn't work, the robot will need to constantly steer to maintain a consistent gyro heading in order to correct changes in route.
Our mobility auto (just driving out of the community) is very important. If we are playing with a team who is very good at balancing, it is very possible that our best auto would be to score a game piece and then do mobility. Unfortunately, right now it sucks.
The "balance a cube on the back of the robot and ram it into the grid to score" technique worked surprisingly well at Mac, the main issue was exiting the community. There is a big bump in the field on the outside of the charge station, and hitting it at speed jerks the robot and changes it's angle. At Mac this led to us crashing sideways into the charge station, stopping our teammate from balancing.
The mobility auto needs to be rewritten so the robot doesn't jerk so much while going over the bump. Since we normally have a lot of time left after mobility auto, it might be enough to fix this issue just by driving really slowly.
If driving slowly doesn't work, the robot will need to constantly steer to maintain a consistent gyro heading in order to correct changes in route.