Comp Checklist

Authors: Aditi, Armaan

Date: 7/10/23

Advice

• Relax
• Follow the checklist
• Don't crowd the pits unless thats your job
• Excersise common sense
  • Depend on the common sense of officers.
• Explore
  • get some pins
• Consume food and water
• Sleep especially if you work in the pit or drive
• Do not drill holes into the roboRIO

Checklist

Pre-Comp (Before you leave)

• Clone this wiki and print out this list because wifi will be spotty at comps

• Run through each common action and make sure it works

  • If there is a runtime error that exexpectedly pops up, fix it at practically any cost

• Check to make sure Auton Paths work reliably

  • Always have simple backup paths in case of failures

• Check to make sure Vision is as reliable as possible

• Double check all physical constants (Mass, Length, etc.) in case Mech made a change is forgot to mention it

  • Minimize mechanical changes especially the week before the comp
  • When software freezes code, mech should also probably freeze

• Make sure the roborio is flashed to the latest version of WPIlib

• Freeze the code a week before the comp and hand the robot over to the drive team

  • If the drivers uncover a serious bug or request a minor control change, fix it.
  • Minimize massive changes
  • Freeze as early as possible

When You Arrive

• Prepare to write really scuffed code. It does not matter how it looks or its style it just needs to work.

• Plug in the driver station

• Plug in the battery cart

• Queue for as many practice matches possible

  • Run every auton path you may use so that you can guage their accuracy and success rate for strategy
    • If they are very inaccurate see Robot Does Not Follow Expected Path At Comps

• Sign up for practice field slots

  • Whether you think you need it or not Sign Up

• Check vision pose estimation

  • If inaccurate, see Calibrate Vision
  • Get it working as well as possible but if its overall effect is detrimental disable it

• Run through each common action and make sure it still works

  • if they suddenly appear to not work despite working at Homestead, it is probably a Electrical or Mechanical issue (unless it is an issue with Auton or Vision).

Pre Match

• Double check that any subsystems that need to be reset have been reset properly. See 2022-Climber

• Get a fresh and juicy battery from the battery cart

• Plug in the battery before queueing

• Enable once to check that nothing came unplugged

On Field

For Technician and Human Player

• Turn on the robot

• Remove safety pins (Like climber pins)

• Make sure that anything that needed to be zeroed has been zeroed properly.

  • Communicate with the drive team using hand signals

• Align the robot as it should be for auton

Post Match

• Reset any subsystems that need to be reset. See See 2022-Climber

• Fix any issues as fast as possible

  • Test the solutions as well as possible

• Put the battery back in the battery cart

• Plug in the driver station

Resources

• 2022-Climber

• Calibrate Vision

• Robot Does Not Follow Expected Path At Comps