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Originally Posted by kamocat
15 seconds isn't enough to take advantage of full-field awareness.
It's only enough time to do something and hope it works. (For example, if you fire a ball into the goals from mid- or far- field, you don't have enough time to go over there and make sure it actually went in.)
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Back in 2004 we had an infrared beacon system that could be used to determine your position on the field and perform a fully autonomous action. It's demonstrated at about 1:40:40 of the kick-off video:
http://robotics.nasa.gov/first/2004/kickoff.htm
It used $10-$15 dollars worth of parts plus some custom code that's still available here:
http://kevin.org/frc/2004/
-Kevin