How many Robots at the nationals had an operational Camera Track Autonomous?
 

How many Robots at the nationals had an operational Camera Track Autonomous?

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i know that 2056 tracked and scored in autonomous and 79 used the camera to set up in front of an opposing trailer. outside of autonomous i know that several teams used the camera for their turret such as 1114, 217, 1902, 25, 40, the list goes on.

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904 had camera tracking in autonomous, but chose not to use it in Atlanta, as far as I know.

They scored in autonomous twice in the Traverse City District event (week 1), but decided not to use it much after that. The problem was that the robot would drive forward, then stop and look for a target. If it found something quick, there wasn't a problem. If it didn't find anything, it was a sitting duck. They decided it was better to not get scored on, then try to get lucky and maybe score.

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Team 56 on Galileo was tracking perfectly every single match. I think 494 was the other robot who tracked perfectly and scored in autonomous on us.:yikes:

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70 and 494 both had camera tracking, autonomous scoring.

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Actually, Paul Copioli has written elsewhere that 217 seldom-to-never used the camera during actual matches. Which makes their accuracy that much more impressive.

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We had tracking in autonomous that would score if it was touching an opposing trailer and if not, it would line us up for teleop. We also had full distance and angle tracking of our turret in teleoperated mode.

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From my viewpoint scouting in the stands it looked like team 368 in Newton was using camera tracking with great success. They were a really awesome robot able to deliver tons of balls accurately and pick up and score super cells quickly!

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Team 40 tracked with the camera with great sucess, scoring 6+ balls in auto many times on Galielo. Team 190 also used the camera in auto to find and track to a trailer. We decided that it was to our advantage not to shoot the balls until after autonomous so as to be 100% sure that we were in a good position to shoot.

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Team 1318 had camera tracking, and it worked excellently in Portland (7 balls scored in several matches), and pretty good in Seattle. We had a few issues with it in the Championships, and of course it is much harder to have an awesome camera tracking mode when most of the robots have a spinning defensive autonomous.

However, we did do some fun stuff with our camera. For example, we have video from all our Saturday matches that is recorded from the ethernet camera, complete with the vision code's target bounding box being displayed. It makes for an interesting post-match analysis :)

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We had a pretty decent camera code- Probably 2/3rds of our matches it would find a trailer and line up with it and we would get the first 7 balls right when teleoperated began. Gave us time to go bring an Empty Cell while some balls were dropped on the floor for us to collect.

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Our robot had a tracking autonomous written that would lock on and fire to a trailer, but we never used it in a competition match. We did have the turret aim at a trailer to start one match though so we could walk forward and pull the trigger.

Track-and-follow autonomous was something I wanted to look into for Atlanta, but the way our programmers wrote the code they said it would cut across methods or something.

We mostly never used the camera, as our manipulator driver was amazing at lining up shots.

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I'd like to see a breakdown of who used what code to track - C++ vs. Labview, and how effective they were comparitively.

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This is the same with Team 1114. Although the camera was on board this season, it never quite reached the point where active camera tracking was more effective than our human operator. In Atlanta there were many factors causing problems, most notably the changing light conditions in the dome as clouds passed over the stadium.

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217 never used the camera in an actual match the entire season. We were just not satisfied with the results. Our human aim was much faster and accurate.