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Originally Posted by jsmeldru
I would not say it is necessary, but to reach a high shot accuracy, camera auto aim is a must.
We tried having our driver (who is quite good) aim it himself. It took much more time, and yielded much less accurate results then using the auto aim. This could be very bot specific, but this is how it has worked out for us.
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You don't need a camera to have extremely high accuracy (but it certainly helps increase confidence in ramping up throughput).
If you have a repeatable shooter, then pick your hot spots on the field, line up, and execute the shot the same way every. single. time. Practice makes perfect.
Every shot our robot took in the Wisconsin finals was manually aimed, with no camera present on the robot. We hit every shot we took and made at least 5 shots in each match. Tyler, our pilot, found an aiming method in the semis that is very intuitive for him, one he is eager to continue using. Now he just has to collect ammo better/faster so we can fire more salvos. I'm actually impressed by what he can do with our *piddly* little single-wide inside the frame perimeter collection method, but I know we can do better - guess what we're working on this week?
A skilled and practiced drive team (I can't imagine how much practice time 254's crew has been getting at home!) operating a machine with the potential capability like 254's could do even more damage in full manual due to faster/easier collecting and shorter times between salvos (provided the ammo is there to collect). I have no doubt that 254's machine can be killer when manually aimed.
Now develop this kind of manual driver skill and then add a layer of automatic aiming control on top of it, with the ability to quickly bypass the system during any malfunctions? Then you are truly deadly.
Think of it as Top Gun for robots *flashbacks to 2004 IRI talent show*. Don't rely upon missiles only. Learn how to dogfight and maneuver for a shot.