[DinerKid]

At both Northeastern and Reading the field reset crew was happy to help us with positioning totes and recycling containers perfectly on the field (example: if it was half an inch from perfect they would adjust it half an inch, despite that fact that half an inch off is within the tolerance).

Additionally, one of our autonomous modes requires our robot to start with a recycling container in our gripper, in order to do this the RC needs to be pressed through passive fingers in order to be in range of the gripper (in teleop we accomplish this by driving the RC against a wall) however during setup of a match, we have one of our drivers sit on the RC to hold it in place, as the field crew placed it, while another driver pushes the robot, flexing the fingers around the RC as it is pushed. This allows us to position properly without ever moving the RC. Perhaps this method could work for some of the other teams out there struggling with initial positioning.

~DK