Camera Issues -- So close yet so far.

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by JoeXIII'007

and the calibration numbers given never really worked

People keep saying this and I don't understand why. I'm surprised that other teams' experience was so different than ours. We used the calibration values provided at 2 different regionals and the Championship event and the camera tracked the specified colors perfectly every time, from both sides of the field, all day long.

Can you explain how you are certain that the calibration numbers didn't work? Are you basing this assumption simply off the fact that your robot didn't go where you wanted it to? If so then you may be jumping to conclusions, which will not help this situation for next year. Instead, this situation needs to be examined carefully to really determine the root cause of your problem or else when FIRST does somehow manage to provide perfect lighting next year and precise calibration values your robot will still drive into a wall.