Autonomous: CMUCam or dead reckoning?

[EricH]

From what I know (admittedly not much as I am not on the camera/accelerometer/gyro crew), our camera guys managed to use the camera as a rangefinder. The theory as I heard it is something like "the camera is at z angle at x height, the vision panels are at y height, so we can use the camera to find distance"- apparently using trig. As for accelerometers, we have two at right angles to each other, but I don't know what the status is on the program. It also helps that we have an onboard processor for incoming data from the camera, gyro, and accelerometer department that sends the data to the RC. I don't know how well it will work- or if it will work- yet because I haven't been around when the program was tested.