How does your auto-aim work?

[Greg Marra]

Have any of you tried aiming your shooter without auto aim? I found it easier than I thought (in practice, anyway) to line up the robot to score from the base of the ramp. I don't think we're going to be accurate enough to score on the other end of our parabola, but from the base of the ramp we didn't have too much difficulty visually gauging whether we were in place or not.

Now autonomous...

[JonBell]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Have any of you tried aiming your shooter without auto aim? I found it easier than I thought (in practice, anyway) to line up the robot to score from the base of the ramp. I don't think we're going to be accurate enough to score on the other end of our parabola, but from the base of the ramp we didn't have too much difficulty visually gauging whether we were in place or not.

Now autonomous...

Actually, now that you mention it...
Due to a number of technical fowl ups (including robot not being done on time, programming team degrading to just myself, and school being closed during last the last week, forcing our pickup to be the friday before), I spent a few hours playing with our robot with just the manual controls. I have had no problem adjusting the altitude (I made a knob that scales the shooter from max legal range to min to reach target), and pretty much always hit the right horizontal, but as distance increases, it's harder to line it up centered. Hopefully during the fix it window I'll be able to program the camera to stay fixed and just tell us when we're in the left-right sweet spot (it seems like this should be relatively easy).

One thing that I noticed with all of these auto-locator robots is this:
Will you have had enough practice shooting without your camera assistance? It seems like (on most robots), the camera is mounted below the shooter, making it very easy to get in between it and the vision target, a defense that may prove to be very successfull.