Thread: auto vs. manual loading zone, which one?
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Re: auto vs. manual loading zone, which one?
401 has a turret, and coming out of our autonomous mode, we are facing forward, and our arm is more or less sideways. Also, with the parallel arms down, we can get almost right up against the wall. So, when we had control of the robot, we would drive alongside to the station, and just raise the elevator and then immediately have a tetra.

The turret allowed us to load from any angle. We even loaded one as we backed into the loading zone, which was pretty cool.
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