Flywheel Launcher Exercise

The Game

This programming exercise is writing robot code for a simple game.

Your goal is to score as many points as possible.

Points are achieved by launching a ball through a vertical goal.

Points are only awarded if the ball goes through the goal while it is active.

The goal will move up and down randomly, and activate at random intervals.

Your Code

You should put all your new code in robot.py. You have a robotInit() method for one-time init operations, and a robotPeriodic() method which runs once every 20ms.

In robotPeriodic(), you must calculate the following outputs:

1. Flywheel Motor Voltage (0 to 12v) - voltage to apply to the flywheel motor. Positive voltage increases flywheel speed.
2. Hood Adjust Motor Voltage (-12 to 12v) - voltage to apply to the hood motor. Positive voltage extends the hood over the top of the wheel.
3. Launch Command (boolean) - Set to True to command the ball to be launched.

Additionally, you get the following inputs from sensors and the field:

1. Current Hood Angle (degrees up or down from vertical) - angle the hood will launch the ball at. It can rotate +/- 60 degrees. 0 is flat, positive is upward, negative is downward.
2. Current Flywheel Speed in RPM - Speed of the flywheel. Maximum is roughly 5000RPM.
3. Time until goal active - Duration until the goal goes active. Usually between 1 and 3 seconds. If this number is zero, the goal is active now.
4. Current Goal Height in cm - Current height of the goal, in centimeters.

Get Started

1. Clone this repo, make a new branch for your development
2. Run the base code by double-clicking run.bat, or by running it in debug in vscode.
3. Add your logic to robot.py to score more points.