Originally Posted by robokiller (Post 1103294)

I was playing around with the reflectors and the kinect and found that at any distance the reflectors appeared to be out of range on the depth finder. Is it possible that the IR emitter and receiver are just far enough apart that the IR light is reflected back to the IR emitter and not being picked up by the IR receiver.

-- Jaxon Weis

Originally Posted by DjMaddius (Post 1100420)

If you use the example tracker you can easily modify it to your needs. I believe tracking will win or loose the game this year. You either auto track the entire time so you can make baskets 90% of the time or you dont track and maybe get 10% of the baskets. Its going to be a difficult feet for everyone but every year there is a win or loose situation and I believe thats this years.

Personally, we are doing complete auto tracking. Trajectory planning and all in the code. Going for a 80% scoring throw from anywhere on the field. But really this depends a LOT on the mechanical also. They have to get the thrower throwing consistently before I can do any math to predict where it will land.

Originally Posted by mikegrundvig (Post 1103423)

This is a source of disagreement between me and one of the mentors on my team. I completely agree with you. If we had many shots to try it would be one thing but with only three balls I feel the robot has to be able to either take the shot itself, or provide distance data accurately for a human to line the shot up. I think the only way for a human to do it without serious camera assistance is if they design the bot to shoot from set positions and just work themselves into those positions. Trying to eyeball both shot angle and power from across the court is going to be very hard.

-Mike

Originally Posted by dellagd (Post 1103702)

What part of your team are you on? Programming, Drive systems or Gaming systems?

Originally Posted by Izz1324 (Post 1103748)

Can the sensor that sees the reflective tape judge the distance and height of the tape?

Originally Posted by CastleBravo (Post 1103966)

Yes, the camera (with proper image processing) can determine the distance, direction, height, etc of the vision target if the retro-reflective tape on the target is properly illuminated.