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Re: Autonomous Sensing
We have in the past few years used:

CMUCam
Gear Tooth Sensors or Encoders
Yaw/Rate Gyro
Maxbotic EZ-1 Sonic Range Finder

So far our tentative plans are to use the following:
*disclaimer This is subject to change at anytime without notice*

KOP Gear Tooth Sensors to measure the distance traveled.
We don't see the need for quadrature encoders this season.

300 degree/sec Yaw Rate/Gyro instead of the KOP one to help keep us straight and to turn left.

IR Sensors to select which position the ball is to knock down, or to simply race.

Undoubtedly we'll use limit switches, potentiometers, or encoders for our arm/manipulator but we haven't finalized that design yet.
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