pic: 1038 Nails auton in the Pitt eliminations
 

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Your Programmers definitly have something to be very proud of. At the Florida Regional we had 3 maybe 4 bots at the most that could score in autonomous, scoring on the top rack is very impressive.

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Very nice job. We have been able to score on the lower and middle rows, and at different starting positions but we have not put a keeper on the top row yet.

Are you using the camera? If so, does the keeper obstruct its view when it is tracking?

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Your robot was perfect.

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I'll leave it to one of our programmers to reply to specifics on the auton program, but we do use the camera to aquire the target (we never know which one it will like best) along with some dead reckoning logic and arm control including gear tooth sensors. We target the top row, as it moves the least. We were very successful in practice rounds (6 of 8), not so much in the "real matches". We think the floor condition may have affected our performance, but we were very close when we missed, ie tubes barely bouncing off the rack. We'll see what happens in Buckeye...

Thanks to all for the nice comments!

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ALong with what Dan said, our arm grabs the tube moves up to clear the camera view in order for it to track the light.

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For those interested, I posted a pic of our starting position and basic auton sequence at: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/27725

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Dan.

Great job!!! MOE missed competing with you guys so far this year. Maybe we will get a chance at the Championship.

Best of luck at Buckeye!

Re: pic: 1038 Nails auton in the Pitt eliminations
 

Wow... that looks very, very similar to our robot...

Re: pic: 1038 Nails auton in the Pitt eliminations
 

Can you post a pic of yours? We are best on the top, though we can hang anywhere easily, I would love to see your robot and discuss your strategy!

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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/tags/frc294

We seem to be most effective on the middle goal, although all three work pretty well.

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As an addition, I'm pretty sure our AMAZING auton coder has two-light code as well.

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Wow, very similar desgn - Yours is a little more robust in the arms, we were going for a lower center of gravity, which has worked well. How many gripper details on the arms did you guys try and what did you end up with? We went through a bunch of details on the arms before we went back to basics... Good looking robot!

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That is very impressive. Congrats

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This robot owns. Watch out, Einstein.