2012 Game?

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Robert Cawthon

How about a moving target in autonomous? Maybe one that is stationary along the X-Y plane, but moves along the Z axis?

Possible, but FIRST has stated that the Kinect will only be used for operating the robot (however they won't prohibit you from putting it on the robot)

Q: Can I put the Kinect on my robot to detect other robots or field elements?

While the focus for Kinect in 2012 is at the operator level, as described above, there are no plans to prohibit teams from implementing the Kinect sensor on the robot.

http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/kinect

And it also looks like it will have some autonomous usages.

During the autonomous period team members will be able to provide some guidance to one (of the three on a team) robot by moving their bodies. Gestures of various types either from sample code that will be supplied or custom code developed by team members will be used to give direction and activity for a robot.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/alfredth/arc...the-robot.aspx

But you never know what someone will come up with....