Thread: Autonomy: How Did You Guys Do It?
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Re: Autonomy: How Did You Guys Do It?
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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
From the looks of it, a lot of teams did the whole "drive forward for x seconds/feet and score" method. Others used line trackers, some might have used cameras.

How did you guys do it?
I've got a range finder on the front of the robot. I drive until I'm about 3ft away from the wall. Then switch over to the camera, and adjust to center on the peg.

Arm is only on timers... Hoping to add encoders soon.
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