The Autonomous Award celebrates the team that has demonstrated consistent, reliable, high-performance robot operation during autonomously managed actions. Evaluation is based on the robot’s ability to sense its surroundings, position itself or onboard mechanisms appropriately, and execute tasks.
Award Guidelines
- The award is based on the performance of the robot’s autonomous (non-operator guided) operations during matches
- Consistent and reliable operation is weighted more heavily than the ability to score maximum points during any specific autonomously managed actions
- A team must be able to explain:
- How the robot understands its surroundings, navigates on the field or positions onboard mechanisms and then executes tasks.
- The factors the teams considered that could interfere with success during autonomously managed actions.
- The design, development, and testing that was done for the robot’s autonomously managed actions.
Team Approach
The team documents the autonomous functions of the robot in our engineering report.