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Re: Why use the RC to control Pan/Tilt

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
Your provided code has a small disadvantage: the camera cannot track while the robot is disabled. That keeps robots from finding the goal target light in advance of entering autonomous operation.
If the green light is within the camera's field of view when autonomous period starts, the software will converge on a solution in much less time than it'll take to fire-up motors.

Because the software is modular, I suspect that it would be very easy to let the camera do the tracking and/or control the servos.

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