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Originally Posted by Smithvillefirst
Our robot canon is amazing but we are having difficulty finding a suitable device to send the coordinates back to the frc controller to tell what the canon is pointed at, any solutions?
Anthony Peck,
Integration Manager
Team 1806
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Their are several choices, All with various levels of coding difficulty. You can use pots to get the relationship between your robots frame and where the cannon is pointed, if your cannon can point separately from the bots frame. You can use the vision system to tell where your frame is pointed in relation to the target. You can use the gyro sensor to measure relative rotation from a known starting point and the acceleration sensor to get a relation ship between the sensors angle and down when things are not moving and a indication of movement along two axis when properly mounted. You can bolt the cannon down and turn the bot, or you can have a cannon that moves relative to the frame (as long as it doesn't reach outside of the 38 by 28 starting boundary of the bot) Hope this give you some idea of what to do further research on. The Tips doc that first publishes is also a good starting point.
http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/oth...ices_Rev_B.pdf