Thread: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
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Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
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Originally Posted by Jetweb View Post
This is something I have been toying with for the last few years and in certain games it would defiantly be possible to do in 6 weeks. last year we were able to track a trailer in full motion, track orbit balls, and using a current sensor on our intake roller we could count how many balls were in our basket. and if i was allowed to put 4 sonar sensors on we would have attempted a full auto match at an off season (the drive team would never go for this in a real match)

Things to note:
- we were only able to get code to this level because we had a complete practice bot by week 3 and worked on it right up to our regional, which i think would be critical in trying to program something as complicated as a fully autonomous robot

- 79 made an awesome obstacle avoidance program using (i believe) 3 sonars at bumper level, which shows that real time obstacle avoidance is very possible without complicated LIDAR or anything like that.

- it is also very helpful to have a good mentor as previously noted.

Even if it doesn't work i have fun trying to figure out how to do it every year and if other people were trying as well I would be even more motivated to try and pull it all together.
Well we had practice bots from day one... but they were old robots, so they don't really count do they?
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