Team update 19

[thefro526]

For those of you that aren't able to click the link, here is the portion about tower triggering:

Interest has been expressed by many teams on how the TRIGGERING of the TOWERS is
monitored. The following is a more technical explanation.

Each TOWER in LOGOMOTION has a dedicated module that monitors the trigger mechanism for
that TOWER and controls the lights at the top. The trigger mechanism activates at ~0.25 inches of
plate movement. The control module has a built-in noise buffer of 1ms. Any input signal longer than
the noise buffer is immediately time-stamped and reported back to the central field controller. This
central field controller then processes the received data every 5ms or less. Once the field controller
sees a TOWER as TRIGGERED, it assigns a finish place to that TOWER (1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th)
depending on the state of the remaining three TOWERS

So, can someone explain what all of this means? From what I understand, your minibot must move the top plate approximately 1/4" and hold the plate in the triggered position for longer than 1ms?