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Re: Finding Distance From Driver Station

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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo View Post
Turning that into a machine function, you can have your camera rotate until it finds your home driver station wall (this assumes you are able to see it). Hand each of your alliance partners a battery-powered flashing LED, each with a different blink pattern. Your camera sees the blinks, knows which one is where, and calculates location based on separation between LEDs (how close or far apart they are) and angle based on camera rotation.
This was the idea behind looking at the driver station lights.
Also these lights are on either side, so you would just have to look to one side or the other, thus it wouldn't be side dependent. By seeing all 3 beacons in one scan you could tell where you were.

I think its relatively the same idea.
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