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Unread 01-05-2006, 23:43
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Re: Varied color light trick...

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Originally Posted by boiler
As has already been mentioned, this rumor surfaced at West Michigan. One only needed a quick look at the field to see how impossible this would have been.
On the drivers stations are red lights and blue lights. Also, there are red and blue LEDs on the robots. So, if it were true, the robots would be shooting at the other robots and drivers instead of the goal.
Of course, the ramp campers and dumpers would still be OK.
This seems to me a reason FIRST would do it; so you have to figure out a way to detect the target but not the drivers stations.

We solved alot of the accidental targeting issues by severely limiting the camera's range of view; the camera was not allowed to tilt low enough to see robots, and was not allowed to tilt any higher than something like 45 degrees. It also wasn't allowed to pan more than 50 degrees in either direction, and wasn't activated in autonomous mode until we started turning to face the goal (we wouldn't search while driving towards the goal).
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