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Programming & Scouting Team

Skills: Java programming, Large collaborative codebases, Math and physics concepts, Web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), Data analytics Requirement: General Laptop, Windows Operating System Required

Develop code for competition and outreach robots.
Develop subsystem code to interface with hardware.
Design robot commands and autonomous programs for scoring.
Optimize for precision using computer vision and other robot data (odometry).
Create controls and dashboard UI for the drive team.
Test, simulate, and debug.
Develop an electronic scouting system (front- and back-end), then gather, clean, and analyze scouting data

Programming:

Planning

Creating a Feature List
- Allows us to plan our codebase structure and modify it as our feature demands change

Mapping out buttons and required subsystem code changes
- Template a code base, getting a head start in programming

“Pseudocoded” the robot
- Worked together in groups to write the code setting aside syntax

Software

WPILib VSCode
- Software libraries + code editor

Pathplanner
- Autonomous path creation

AdvantageScope
- Simulation testing

GitHub
- Version control

Click to go to our Github page!

Screen Recording 2025-10-04 at 11.50.21 AM.mov

Coding

Separate groups are responsible for handling different parts of the robot’s code.

Subsystems (Lead: Tanish)
- Create IO layers to communicate between commands and hardware
- Implements different control types (PID, FeedForward, etc.)
Drivers and Auto (Lead: Arnav)
- Creates autonomous paths
- Creates commands for scoring and handles their sequencing
- Creates UI and controls for drive team

Vision (Lead: Zach)
- Pose estimation and object detection based on cameras and sensors
- Automating and refining movement across the field

Drivers and Auto - Creating Commands

Subsystems - Manipulate hardware (getting sensor info)

Simulating

We use different software to test our code

Advantage Scope
- Allows us to simulate our robot with the game map which helps us test commands and autons

Creating a bug list
- Helps the team stay organized and on track of all current issues in the code

Creating videos of commands and autons working in simulation
- For everyone on the team to learn more about our code and our autos

CommandVideoEx.mov

Tuning and Testing

Allows us to fine tune the performance of mechanisms to fit our exact needs
- Increment and decrement tunable values to achieve our ideal state

Thoroughly test the physical robot for any bugs, and run all mechanisms to ensure no faulty code
- Work in parallel to get physical systems working and all bugs fixed

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