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Re: What can your robot do in Autonomous?

Wow, I'm shocked how many people can do somethign this year. Last year, had this poll been answered honestly, I'd say less then 50% could do anything in auto.

Of course there is a great deal of self-sampling bias, and chiefdelphi is not even close to representative of FIRST, but if this is even close to true it will be a much more interesting year this year.

I'm using the camera, and two quaderature encoders. I'm using the quaderature encoders in a somewhat... unusual way. The omniwheels are undriven, being used only for navigation (and as "casters"). Since omniwheels measure rotation only in one direction, polling the encoders gives vectors which can be integrated to give position. We'll see how it works
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