Initialising the Robot

When using Python to program your robot, you must remember to initialise the robot. If you’re using Blockly, this is done automatically.

All of the code required to control the Robot is located in the robocon Python module. The robocon module is composed of various submodules that control various aspects of the robot.

Name	Function	Notable Classes
brain	Hardware control	IO
vision	Camera and marker detection	Camera
game	Game specific information

To import the various modules, and initialise robot subsystems, use the following code:

from robocon.vision import Camera
from robocon.io import IO

I = IO()        # initialise i/o controller
C = Camera()    # initialise camera controller

The IO and Camera classes are completely separate, you don’t need to initialise them if you don’t plan on using the features of the robot they provide.

Unlike in previous versions of the robot library, the startup wait occurs before your code is executed. When in this state, the blue “user” LED will flash rapidly, either the hardware start button, or Sheep run button can be used to start your code.