Thread: Your testing beacons vs. competition beacons
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Unread 16-03-2004, 17:03
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Re: Your testing beacons vs. competition beacons
how do you have the sensors mounted on your bot? are you restricting the angles from which the light can hit the sensor?

we have ours on inside a 1 x 2 x 4" black plastic box from radioshack, with the sensor all the way on the back side, and the front has a slit cut, about 1/8" wide and vertical on the bot

so we have a very narrow angle of view left and right and about a 45° angle up and down

have you done something similar or do your sensors have a wide angle of view?

one suggestion is if you lose the signal keep going straight ahead until you re-acquire it - we had our auton mode shutting down if something went wrong, then realized - what are we protecting by doing that? - nobody is going to get hurt if we are off course or somethings not exactly right, so we might as well at least take a shot at dead recogning - maybe we will still get the ball that way - cant hurt to try, but if you stop you definately lose out.