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Re: Shooter vs Dumper Trade Study

We did end up basically shooting with our hood all the way down and within about 1-3ft of the trailers. We had an incredible autotracking code working under flourescent lighting which was about 95% accurate, but we never had time to adjust it for the lighting and thus it never worked the same. At times we would see it lock on but it was jittery at best. With some more time I am sure we could get autotracking working and our ideal situation would be to track robots within 5ft and adjust on the fly. We designed our shooter to have an adjustable hood to control distance as well as a turret. Luckily for us our shooter is very high throughput and we can shoot down at the same velocity.
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