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Tom Bottiglieri Tom Bottiglieri is offline
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Re: Vision: what's state of the art in FRC?

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Originally Posted by billbo911 View Post
Tom,
I've heard you make these comments before, and although I don't agree 100%, I fully understand your reasoning and logic. Since I like to look to the Poofs as a team to learn from, I would like to know if there ever was a game where 254 needed to use vision to overcome an obstacle?
We used vision in 2012 to align with the basket from the key. You really had to be tight on the target that year and our long 8wd was not super easy to align by hand. We were able to pull out the angle of the robot relative to a line between the center of the robot and the center of the backboard, as well as the angle of said line relative to the field. This allowed us to aim a bit left or right of the center of the backboard based on whether we were on the right/left/center side of the key.