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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?

JBot
Dead reckoning. If you're at the championship, look right under our controller for our straight line device (IMU) and at our drive chains for a set of potentiometers--then try to find a camera on the robot. (There isn't one.)
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