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Re: Ideas distingushing between middle goals?

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Originally Posted by russell
That is what I was thinking before I realised that there are yellow triangles in the goals. Our problem comes from using 4wd with skid steer, which I cannot immagine would work very well with dead reckoning stuff. Am I right on that, or do robots tend to always skid the same way?
Blind dead reckoning works with any kind of robot, because its path is determined experimentally. Unfortunately, while that would have worked great last year, and it will work fine this year for knocking down the hanging tetras, it won't do you any good for finding the vision tetra. You do get a lot of inaccuracy with encoders and skid steer, because your powered wheels do a lot of slipping, and it's hard to estimate how much they are actually going to slip.
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