[RyanCahoon]

Originally Posted by lineskier

Think we could use the beacons that already exist??

The red vs blue would be real nice cause you could look at either side.

Ooh... Sounds like I have a new offseason project

Good idea, yourself

Originally Posted by davidthefat

Why not just software localization? Just keep track of where you are through software

Maybe I don't understand what you're suggesting; you would be using software to detect the position of the lights from the camera images and triangulate your position.

If you're suggesting (the fairly standard method of) dead-reckoning using encoders/accelerometers/gyros, the advantage to the methods talked about in this thread is that you can determine absolute position on the field, whereas relative localization has accumulated error since at each point in time you're only calculating the change in position, so successive errors in the sensor readings lead to increasing errors in the position estimate.

--Ryan