frc1418 / 2014

Robot code for 2014

Team 1418 robot code + driver station UI

PLEASE NOTE! The contents of this distribution is distributed under two licenses! The robot portion of the code is distributed under the BSD license, found in LICENSE.

The driver station portion of the code is derived from the 2013 KwarqsDashboard, and is distributed under the GPLv3 license, found in driver_station/COPYING

Introduction

This code is released from Team 1418's 2014 robot. Team 1418 had one of their best years yet in 2014.

They had a dominating performance at Richmond at the Virginia Regional, finishing as the #2 seed, and led the #2 alliance to the finals with teams 2383 and 435. They were awarded the Industrial Design award for a variety of reasons, including their simple but effective robot design, multiple autonomous modes and useful touchscreen driver station interface.

At the Greater DC Regional, they had a rocky start and ended up finishing as the 7th seed, but led the #6 alliance to the finals with teams 1885 and 2537.

Highlights of the code

• Full pyfrc integration for testing & robot simulation
• Unit tests over the robot code with 70% code coverage
• Complex autonomous mode support
  • Multiple working autonomous modes used in competition
    • Two balls - uses a gyro to make sure the robot drives straight
    • Single ball shoot
    • Single ball hot goal shoot
  • Automatic support for tuning the autonomous mode parameters via the UI
• Automation of core catapult functions
• Mechanum drive

The autonomous mode stuff will be rolled into pyfrc in the near future, so that it can be used by more teams.

Deploying onto the robot

The robot code is written in Python, and so to run it you must install RobotPy onto the robot. Refer to the instructions accompanying RobotPy for more information.

With the pyfrc library installed, you can deploy the code onto the robot by running robot.py with the following arguments:

$ python robot.py upload

This will run the unit tests and upload the code to the robot of your choice.

Testing/Simulation

The robot code has full integration with pyfrc. You can use the various simulation/testing options of the code by running robot.py directly. With pynetworktables installed, you can use netsim mode of pyfrc to test the robot code and the driver station UI together.

Code Structure

. You are here.

driver_station/ Code for our driver station user interface. Please see driver_station/README.md for more information

robot/ robot/ src/ The robot code lives here tests/ py.test-based unit tests that test the code and can be run via pyfrc

electrical_test/
	src/
		Barebones code ran to make sure all of the electronics are working
	tests/
		Basic testing code to make sure we don't have syntax errors

subsystem_tests/ This code hasn't been cleaned up, various testing code

2014 Team 1418 Programming Team

Mentors:

Dustin Spicuzza, lead software mentor
[email protected]

Students:

Leon Tan, robot code
Tim Winters, robot code
Tyler Gogol, robot code
Beamlok Hailemariam, robot code
Sophie McGinnies, robot code
	
Shayne Ensign, UI programmer
Matt Puentes, UI programmer

Ben Rice, Image Processing programmer