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Re: Optical sensors getting tricked

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Originally Posted by yash101 View Post
Closed-loop programming is good enough for most cases. However, when you are building a robot that will be in a different scenario at most times, you cannot rely on closed-loop. Open-loop seems like it would be slower, but it would be trustworthy. Would you rather shoot 100 frisbees into the goal at a 60% accuracy, or would you shoot 60 frisbees and make all 60 into the goal? The latter would be more impressive because that is a 100% accuracy compared to a 60% accuracy of the first one. Also, these numbers above are sarcastic. It would be more of a 7-9 or 8-9 ratio of made goals.
I'm confused. A few weeks ago, you said:

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Our team wants to start PID, because we properly designed our robot last year, but didn't use sensors. If we did use sensors, we would have probably won the championships.
You seem to be contradicting yourself.