[PhilBot]

Originally Posted by Doug Leppard

Good video, but I can not download youtube, at least I don't know how. Also be sure to tell me the method (IE camera).

Here is a direct link to Team 1629's Autonomous video (wmv) file.

http://www.gearsinc.org/images/auto_1629.wmv

These are from the elimination matches at Chesapeake.

Navigation is performed by camera and gyro.
The camera is hard-mounted to the robot (no pan/tilt).
It uses the Gyro to get withing viewing range, and then locks in with the camera. Both heading and range are provided by the camera.
The vertical car and rotational arm (two axes of motion) are positioned based on feedback from potentiometers.

Once we got the camera so it could see the lights, we mised one, and scored two.

In addition to a direct near-side score, we are working on scoring on the opposite side of the rack (for off season games).