Reflective Tape on Robot

[Bill_B]

I was thinking more about a common agreement for alliance partner recognition to be applied via retro reflective tape in some pattern on each robot of an alliance. For instance, vision recognition of a triangle might be used to avoid passing to an opponent. Also could signal that the alliance partner is correctly oriented to receive a pass to even a non-automatic recognition system.

[Woolly]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

I was thinking more about a common agreement for alliance partner recognition to be applied via retro reflective tape in some pattern on each robot of an alliance. For instance, vision recognition of a triangle might be used to avoid passing to an opponent. Also could signal that the alliance partner is correctly oriented to receive a pass to even a non-automatic recognition system.

Well, for signaling correct orientation, I think green L.E.D.s in the area of your catching mechanism would be the way to go. They would also be handy to have on your ground-pass intake.

[DavisC]

I'm sure a standard design could be made (I've barely done vision tracking but I imagine something like 1 of these triangles would work).

[Kevin Selavko]

Originally Posted by DavisC

I'm sure a standard design could be made (I've barely done vision tracking but I imagine something like 1 of these triangles would work).

I think that having yellow triangle displayed on the sides of your robot that teams should not pass to you so they can instantly tell not to just pass the ball to you, and have a green triangle with your current alliance color in the center of it on the side/where you want balls to be passed to you on/at. This way if your alliance partners will be able to tell instantly if they should pass the ball to you, and they wont have to worry about knowing what orientation is front and what side intakes are on all the robots every second.