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Originally Posted by engunneer
The two things I have to add to this are:
- Remember that the robot camera is allowed to be fed back to the driver station this year (as best as I can tell)
- Notice that the center field stripe is the same white/black/white pattern as the goal vision targets, and it goes through the tunnels.
I think they are encouraging us to use the camera for driver assistance, and a good team will use the vision system to steer the robot through the tunnel.  |
Even easier than using the vision system for the tunnel though... get a small photodetector and an LED or two, and mount them on the bottom middle of the robot. You *should* then be able to detect when the photodetector can "see" the white line when compared to the carpet, and a little semi-autonomous programming can keep you running straight down that line. Plus a nice bonus from getting this working - you can work the detection into your autonomous program so you never violate <G28> and get a penalty for completely crossing the line during autonomous!