pic: MOE 365 Robot - TerMOEnator

[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by DjAlamose

I like it! But I have a big concern that your robot will be DQ'd because of its color. I know last year we didn't like your shirts because they messed up our camera, but it’s a great color! Green is only the best color out there. Nice hopper by the way, what material is it? Wire mesh?

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Under this rule your robot would be condsidered illegal. Sorry but i guess your going to have to repaint. If you want further proof see http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread...ighlight=green

We appreciate everyone's concern that we not get DQ'd during gameplay, but if the color is determined during robot inspection to be a problem, we will never make it to the field. It won't be a referee judgement call.

Last years camera difficulties, if anyone cares to search CD, was determined to be attributed to the differences of lighting in the venues. There are a number of threads concerning this, and there was even a meeting among the programmers in Atlanta to try and get this lighting problem corrected. Without a target that was illuminated, there was significant difficulty in determining the color frequency. The suggestion for an illuminated target, and a positive way to seek a specific color frequency was made in this post:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=400811

(Yes GDC does read Delphi.)

It will be easy enough during robot inspection to test paint colors on robots to see if they will or will not interfere, and I expect this to be one of the items on the inspection sheet. We have no desire to interfere with another teams camera; we understand that rule and we will not violate it. Consequently, we have done the camera test ourselves on both the robot and the team shirts, and they are easily distinguished from the cathode light. We expect that the robot inspectors will verify this at the venues.