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Unread 23-04-2011, 11:43
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Re: The Pink Team 3 Tube Autonomous

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Originally Posted by The Lucas View Post
Pink's gripper is amazing, but I don't know how many inches of tolerance they have when they are intentionally grabbing the tube offset so far to the left (for our experience, once we got the distance correct, all our misses are setup errors where we miss the grab on a misplaced tube).
One of the cool parts about it, is that the tube is always in the right position relative to the rack, no matter where the robot picks it up. So if the robot is off a little and doesn't grab it from center, the tube will still be in the right place to score.