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Re: What Are You Doing During Autonomous Period?

we have a vacuum on our robot that makes for great consistency in the autonomous mode. our robot has a photo transistor on the front to detect balls that are in the vacuum, so we just line them up, go straight, grab a ball, kick, and move on to the next one. there are switches on the driver station that tell the robot what zone its in, so it stops after it hits the proper number of balls and raises the kicking mechanism for close shots.