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The optical sensors we got had a yellow body and ... yeah I believe they had a red lens.
We took a long look at using them to lock on a goal at power up so that we could autonomously drive to the goal and lock on. Like Andrew posted, we thought we might gain a sec. or so advantage. When we checked the sensor specs against the distance from our starting position to the center-line of the field, however, the sensitivity of the sensors rolled off big-time about 4ft shy of the reflective tape. So, we'd have to start in manual, get a lock on multiple sensors and triangulate. Since we got ~12fps in high gear, we figured we'd be there by the time we got a good lock! In the end, since we were pretty fast, we relied on pure speed and a beefy front grabber, and just rammed the goal at full speed. We did end up using the optics, though, as part of a tread speed measuring circuit. |
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Personally I think a fully autonomous competition would be horrible (Im biased cause Im a driver) I've seen autonomous robotics competitions before. They are a difficult engineering challenge (even with tons of expensive sensors), but they are boring to watch. The part of FIRST that gets people so exicited at competition is the sport aspect. Take away the humans and its just a bunch of bots out on the feild. the human element means every match is different and unique. The robot (and people themselves) can quickly adapt to unexpected situations. THe most exciting matches are ones where everything doesnt go as planned. Who's gonna chant and cheer for an autonomous bot? The real potential would be for FIRST to give us what we need to give robots cabalities to supplement the driver. |
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