Moving to a point between lights with autonomous

[kaszeta]

Originally Posted by psquared89

Wow, I hope I don't start off a discussion off-topic or offensive to anyone here, but I am truly disappointed in this thread. minifranco came to CD asking teams for a little help, a pointer in the right direction, and all he got were a series of cryptic, useless responses of teams guarding their hard-earned success instead of sharing them, even the tiniest part of them, with the community.

I'm not trying to be too cryptic, I'm trying to reinforce the idea that there are many approaches to autonomous mode, not just one technique (camera imagery). The original poster asks a real question (how to position the bot between the lights, when many (most?) camera installations won't be able to see one or both lights at this location). I'm trying to point out that if you get to this point, there may be simple solutions one can try aside from or in addition to camera strategies.

Too many discussions I've seen make the assumption that there is one way of doing this, which simply isn't true. The simply camera approach might be the best way. The double camera approach might turn out to be better. I'm reminded of both of the last two seasons, in which people proclaimed early on that cameras were absolutely necessary, and in both cases, many teams went on to do surprisingly well without (Team 95's robot last year, for example, ended up without a camera since we found it gave little benefit)

The only cryptic part comes from not needlessly exposing our team's specific strategy too early.

Hope I could help and sorry for the rant.

You have some valid points.