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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII

I would be worried about driving that close to the lane divider. For one thing, your bumpers are probably going to rub on the sides slowing you down slightly, which will create a discrepency between how far your robot thinks it has traveled and how far it has actually traveled.

There's also the problem of running into other robots that are stuck on the lane divider (seems to happen a lot).

The turn radii can be adjusted easily if need be... they were much wider at midwest and other regionals, true, and if there is a problem with rubbing then we'll make them wider again. The arc interpolation on the turns is not a lookup-table based operation, it's done formulaicly in real time, so changing the radii just means changing the radus for the turn in question in the autonomous script.

Why would the robot have a discrepancy between how far it thinks it has gone and how far it actually has gone if it runs into a robot/rubs the lane divider (not that that's the plan)?

Thanks for the comments!

-q