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Re: Placing the socer ball on it's spot

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Originally Posted by qwertyuiop[]\ View Post
you guys are way over thinking this. its not hard to put the ball down. the carpet also helps keep it from rolling away.
Not really... When your autonomous is done via dead reckoning and the robot has a tendency to drift to the right about 6" over a 15 foot Distance you want the soccer balls to be exactly where you place them. A 1/2" could, and has been the difference between us scoring and simply pushing balls into the wall in Autonomous.
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