autons

Autonomous Selection & Routing Library for vexide.

autons is a library that provides standard interfaces for autonomous route selectors in programs using the vexide robotics runtime. autons also provides some basic reference implementations of such selectors (see: SimpleSelect) that can be used for selecting different autonomous routes.

An "autonomous route" is an asynchronous function takes a robot struct and runs during the autonomous period of a robotics match. When programming robots, we often have many different routes that we want to choose between depending on conditions of the match. Rather than uploading these routes as individual programs to different slots, autons provides a way for us to choose between these routes in a single program at runtime.

async fn route_1(robot: &mut MyRobot) {
    // do stuff...
}

async fn route_2(robot: &mut MyRobot) {
    // do other stuff...
}

async fn skills(robot: &mut MyRobot) {
    // run skills...
}

Usage

In vexide, you normally have only one autonomous function provided to you through the Compete trait:

impl Compete for MyRobot {
    async fn autonomous(&mut self) {
        // route goes here...
    }
}

With autons, you can instead use the SelectCompete trait, which is a modified version of vexide's Compete trait that allows for multiple autonomous routes chosen through a struct implementing the [Selector] trait. Here is a basic example using the SimpleSelect selector with two routes on our robot:

use autons::{
    prelude::*,
    simple::{route, SimpleSelect},
};
use vexide::prelude::*;

struct Robot {}

impl Robot {
    async fn route_1(&mut self) {}
    async fn route_2(&mut self) {}
}

impl SelectCompete for Robot {
    async fn driver(&mut self) {
        // ...
    }
}

#[vexide::main]
async fn main(peripherals: Peripherals) {
    let robot = Robot {};

    robot
        .compete(SimpleSelect::new(
            peripherals.display,
            [
                route!("Route 1", Robot::route_1),
                route!("Route 2", Robot::route_2),
            ],
        ))
        .await;
}

This will draw an autonomous selector to the display, allowing you to pick between different routes.