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Originally posted by Jeremy L
did anybody actually try to put these in their design or are you all just hoping to be able to grab/push/whatever the goal with perfect accuracy? my team isn't using them either...
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We prototyped a goal tracking device with some marginal success. It is based on a rotating mirror that reflects the sensor beam at a 90 degree angle between the reflecor and the sensor. (bouncing both ways) Kind of like a store bar code scanner....
It works well, and we were able to track three goals.....but only at a distance of about 15 feet!
We were going to use this system to "steer" the robot into the heart of the goal so that even if it were moving, we could automatically track it and mate our grabber with it.
Well, we were looking for more like 25 feet from the sensor, and we ran out of room on our robot for another sensor.
We currently do it by eye.....(but we willbe bringing our prototype rotating sensor to the regionals just to show it off)
-Quentin
I'm sure someone somewhere worked [I]really hard[/I] on this and I congratulate them for the attempt. Unfortunately, its one of those things that should be taken down and recorded in the company journal as a bad idea. - Katie_UPS [more] 
01-02-2002, 09:14
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