Ready for ACTION!

The robot is now at a functional state with lots of new automation and is ready to compete in an offseason competition.

It certainly took a lot of time, especially with the abundant testing, and fixing some confusing bugs.

Completed:

• Added manual aim adjustment
• Created and saved elastic dashboard

Challenges:

• There was a bug caused by autonomous path filtering that I helped my team fix. It was hard to find what was causing it and even now I still don’t know why that line was causing a problem.
• Fixed a bug where the automatic shooting was actually not shooting when everything is ready, but was shooting instantly.

Moving forward:

I’m gonna keep working on this and improving it for our next offseason competition instead of shipping it already. So the plans are:

• Automatically detect when we’re intaking, shooting, or a certain spot is facing resistance with stator current thresholds.
• Improve moving while shooting accuracy.
• Try some object detection, 3d simulation, and vision sim.

Signing off,
Ash-ioL