Thread: Aerial Camera for FIRST matches
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Re: Aerial Camera for FIRST matches
I know for the robocup competition, teams are required to have certain labels and symbols on the top of their robot down to a spec, and they have a top view camera that teams can access during the match to track where players are and do autonomous programming off of that. This would be a very cool thing to have in FRC. While it would take some time (years) for teams to fully utilize it, it could make autonomous mode a lot more interesting and have more action between alliances.

Think about the defense we saw on Einstein and at IRI with the goalie bots such as 1114 against/with 254. Now think about the crazier chess matches that would ensue if both robots knew where every robot was on the field and tried to outmaneuver the other. And that would be without a human driving it using a kinect, which I know some people are against being legal.

I don't see this happening for this coming season, or even the one after, but it is a very intriguing thought for the future.

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