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Post Scoring Corner Goals During Autonomous

My team is not building a robot with the ability to shoot into the center goal. Instead, we will simply gather balls and dump them into the corner goals. During autonomous mode, we simply want the robot to drive up to the corner goal and dump all 10 starting balls into it.

The problem seems to be that there are no vision lights on the corner goals. There is no green light above the corner goals for sure, and unless I am very much mistaken there is also no infrared source (any infrared beacon) near the corner goals. So, can anyone think of any way of making an autonomous mode that will have the robot drive up to a corner goal? I have heard something somewhere about it being possible to use the infrared sensors to detect obstacles, and thus being able to detect a hole in a wall. Is this true? Is it possible? If so, how difficult would it be to implement?

Also, it has been suggested to me that I could use the CMU cam to look for shapes. Then, I could look for the red or blue rectangle surrounding the corner goals. I am completely new to using sensors: in previous years, our robot had no autonomous mode. I believe that the CMU cam idea will not work because there are lots of red or blue rectangles on the field, for instance the starting positions. However, I would very much appreciate someone else's opinion on this and any ideas on how to implement the autonomous mode I described.
 


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