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Unread 28-03-2007, 21:49
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Re: Autonomous in Championship

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Originally Posted by JBotAlan View Post
Were you using dead reckoning and got lucky, or did you use other means of finding the rack (like ultrasonic range finders)? I have ultrasonics, but am having problems programming them. Perhaps you have some pointers?
When we scored, we didn't have any sensors sensing the rack, at the time the only functional sensors on our robot were our gyro, arm potentiometer, and accelerometer. We do have an ultrasonic sensor on our claw, and we are trying to incorporate it (as well as our camera) during the fix it window. We haven't had any real time to play around with the ultrasonic yet during the fix it window, but if we do, we can probably offer some tips.
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