Need to discuss Autonomous

[mnik22]

We need to decide how we are going to operate a robot autonomously this year. Last year we got away with using a camera, but like all good things, that came to an end this year.

I was wondering if we could put PID locks on the rotation motors and essentially drive it like it was a tank drive bot. That would limit our maneuverability, but it could make the auto paths easier to make.

Motion profiling would be amazing to have, but unfortunately we didn't have enough time to start that and vision this off season. I'm not sure if we have time to add that on top of vision this build season, but it's something to consider.

[mnik22]

VS Code with the WPILib extension includes its own motion profiling tool, "Pathweaver". I will mess around with this to see if it can be useful to us.

https://docs.wpilib.org/en/latest/docs/software/wpilib-tools/pathweaver/introduction.html

[h1d3m3]

Ideas for Autonomous:

• Move some distance off the line
• backwards or forwards
• Turn to shooting at goal (if not directly in front)
• Shoot without turning
• delay movement
• delay shooting

we need to be concerned about how the robot is positioned for swerve.