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Jeff_Rice: I agree. I'm just more towards using the sensors.
Azash: Last year's sensors could be quite different. They do seem to be the same, I haven't actually looked at the part number though. I also realized that the sensors trigger anything reflective, but unless you are going to have them point anywhere else but the floor, it will only trigger on two things, the white tape, and myabe the wire mesh. They work if you put them on the bottom of your robot looking down. Hence, when then sensor goes off, you know where the tape is relative to your robot to a pretty high degree.
RyanKM: I know what you mean about the different programs running. But that dial, I assume, is something you have to set before the autonomous code. Will we know wether or not we are going left or right before the match start and be allowed to change something on the robot? If the answer is yes, then good for you. Select the dead reckoning program before the match.
All you need to know is that I have enough experience. I don't want to get into how many years. And if you looked at my psuedo code, that is a basic state machine. Maybe you just overlooked that I posted a solution. In case you care about my background, I have been an aspiring game programmer so I know plenty about looping code, and running differently on a frame by frame basis to achieve a psuedo procedural algorithm. Also, I can imagine it - heck, I can see it put to code, just bug ridden and very flawed. Please try to sound less insultive next reply.
wysiwyg: Excellent solution. And that one I can't see failing unless that wheel is lifted off of the ground, which I'm almost sure won't happen in autonomous mode. I know our team has a caster wheel that wouldn't be slipping, but since that could be in any orientation, I wouldn't know what direction it move over that distance unless I had some other form of input about the orientation of the wheel.
sevisehda: I don't know if i was clear in the original post. I think most teams have overcomplicated autonomous code. Not that I have seen, but based on the questions I see on these forums, people seem to be attempting pretty complicated things that have a high chance of failure.
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