A Reminder of Simplicity

[mtrawls]

How have they been working at the comps?

I was somewhat suprised, actually -- there aren't a lot of robots that can consistently knock down the 10 pt. ball. Even fewer that attempt to do it using the IR sensors. Unfortunately, I can't say how the finals at VCU went ... (I was ... err, elsewhere), but at Annapolis, I don't think the majority of bots in the finals were knocking the ball over (granted some robots did have the strategy of positioning the mobile goal under the release and specifically did not want to knock it over).

Originally Posted by edomus

We tried to use the ir at anapolis and found that there is way too much interference. Most of the time our sensors could not lock on. Thank god we had a programmed overide and a accurate dead reconing code.

Really? We had absolutely no problems with our IR sensors ... except for that a tiny opening in the back of one produced some interesting reflection errors, which was duly noticed and fixed with some handy aluminum foil. Other than that, we didn't get any stray signals or anything of that sort, and found that we could control our acceptance angle very accurately. What type of set up did you use? The heat shrink?