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13-03-2015, 11:43

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AKA: Dustin Spicuzza

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Re: #Team20PointAuton

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Originally Posted by Ken Streeter

1519 strafes along the wall in the same way -- I've seen about a half-dozen videos of other teams that use identically this approach. We also have "wall-following wheels" mounted on the back of the robot to aid following the wall.

Nice. We played with the idea of wall-following wheels, but we actually use a infrared distance sensor + PID to detect how far we are and just glide along the wall without hitting it.

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