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Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=10930
Might not be able to use those traditional robot colors. Quote:
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
same for our team but i have been pushing for a switch to school colors for over a year now so im taking the target coloring as a blessing.
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
This Q&A response has some implications for people standing near the field during match play also, particularly field reset volunteers.
I'm reminded of a bone-headed mistake that I made, wearing a green team shirt under my volunteer shirt while working field reset on Curie in 2005. At least one robot tracked me instead of the vision tetra. My unintended interference with autonomous robot functioning might have influenced the outcome of a match. Not a good feeling. I corrected the problem when the field supervisor pointed it out.If the team colors you are wearing match those of the vision targets, be careful not to get too close to the field. |
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
Oh no... no more hot pink and lime green robots? I'm going to miss having a rainbow of robots around.
I'm impressed that the vision system picked up a green shirt from under another shirt, though- wow. |
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
So what if MOE teams ups with the PINK team. Can you imagine the multiple vision targets behind the controllers!
![]() Last edited by waialua359 : 12-01-2009 at 22:18. Reason: spelling |
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
True, there's nothing that says team members can't wear pink/green....
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
I'd be very reluctant to enforce a violation of <R02-C> if a vision system intended to find a target at a height of 59" is distracted by colorful bumpers at a height of 7". It's hard to call that "specifically intended to interfere", because I would assume that any team sophisticated enough to rely on the vision system knows better than to have their camera pointing at the ground.
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
Rather than pick up pink or green, we decided to look for a pattern of pink over green (or the other way round) (so we can tell if it is a red or blue trailer, of course). If Pink or MOE get atop each other we may have a problem, but no pattern, no tracking, so colored bumpers should not be an issue for us.
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
This is really stupid IMHO.
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
We noticed that MARS's red shirts were picked up as pink until we tweaked the settings a little bit.
Thankfully, our robots tend to be more black than red, but the red will be there. It is up to the teams to focus on the correct targets, and also on the teams to change their robot color scheme if it conflicts with the swatches provided in the KOP. Do it for your alliance partners' benefit. Shirts outside the playing field should not be an issue. Most cameras will be used for autonomous only, or should have an override if a problem develops in tele-op mode.. |
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
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Last edited by Adam Y. : 12-01-2009 at 22:23. |
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
I'm not a programmer, but couldn't you also include in the code to look for the colored bumpers directly below the pink and green? like if pink's on top, have the robot make sure that the bumpers are red before it shoots.
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Re: Bad news for Pink, MOE, ThunderChickens ... ?
This is a little worse than in the past for vision systems but isn't too surprising to me. In 2006 our team provided glowsticks to all competitors at the AZ regional; anyone on a drive team wearing a green glowstick was asked to remove it for the match to avoid any confusion between it and the lighted targets.
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