[Caleb Sykes]

My original post was referring to the fact that you could theoretically use the Kinect to block balls in AUTO by setting up the Kinect in front of your drivers and letting one of them control the robot during this time.

This is a much easier challenge than vision tracking since the WPILib still has support for driver-side Kinect usage. If you have any questions about that, you can post them here or PM me, since I know a bit about that.

I have never seen a team use 3 Kinects to vision track moving objects. In fact, I have never seen any team ever successfully vision track any moving system. In my opinion, there are usually other less aggressive ways to improve your robot that you could be spending your time on. Unless your team has a large group of very experienced programmers who have a lot of time on their hands, I would strongly advise you not to go down this route, especially since you are a rookie team.

I would encourage you to attempt to utilize the Kinect in autonomous on the driver's side, but not for dynamic 3D vision-tracking. That sounds like it could instead be a really fun off-season project if people are interested. Why don't you focus on being really good at possessing the ball quickly and easily? A solid goalie that can quickly get an ASSIST will certainly be in the elimination rounds at any competition, especially if said goalie can block AUTO shots.