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Originally Posted by Jared Russell
Robocup uses a top-down, whole field camera as previously mentioned. This might be infeasible, but attaching a high resolution camera (with high intensity LED rings) rigidly to a goal or field element would be really, really cool. The field would then send the images over wired Ethernet to the player station and would let teams detect their own robot in the video stream on the driver's station. You could then do localization (or even visual servoing) based on the feed and send commands to the robot.
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One of my mentors waaaaaaaay back on 294 (and still a mentor) was on the very successful Cornell team, and told us about this method.
Ever since then I thought it'd be awesome for FIRST to implement. It's very achievable and a completely new twist on everything.