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Re: Best Autonomous

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Originally Posted by ldeffenb View Post
The EASY button on the front of TyRap VII made the retry possible. When it contacted the spider foot, the automatic scoring sequence was engaged and the robot KNEW it had made it. If it didn't hit within a reasonable time period or a maximum camera tilt, it would back away from the rack and try again.
There's a story behind the retries... Ldeffenb up there didn't think it was going to happen, so a friend (lilbowser) and I went out to the Olive Garden, thought of a retry criteria, and brought it back to the meeting and implemented while our brain-fried software mentor took his dinner break... Oh yeah, this is 5:00PM, Monday night before ship.