Stronghold Meeting - 12-Jan-2016

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Competition Season Meeting

Meeting Date Meeting Time Location Attendees
TCHS Brandywine

CAD & Design

Mechanical

Programming

-After yesterday's meeting, we decided the next step for GRIP would be to try using an IP camera.

- We started by attempting to reconfigure the axis camera on the robot. Since the connections were loose on the camera, we had to use a different axis camera.
-After configuring the camera, we used the IP address of the camera, 169.254.68.20, in the GRIP program.
-This still did not work. GRIP was unable to read a camera at this IP address.
- After realizing that the IP address was in the range for APIPA - 169.254.0.1 to 169.254.255.254 - it became apparent that the DHCP server on the robot was assigning the camera a new IP address.
- We discovered the new IP address through the web page for the roboRIO. After using this IP address in the GRIP program, it worked. We were able to get data from the robot using the camera and our vision algorithm.
- We wired up an LED ring around the camera so we could use it tomorrow to attempt vision processing with the retro-reflective tape.

Strategy

-We completed a point analysis based off the predicted time it would take to complete various tasks.

-We started by selecting times for tasks such as: crossing a defense, lining up to shoot(with and without auto alignment), finding another boulder, etc
-We then calculated the number of cycles we could do in a match, and the points that our robot alone would score.
-It became apparent that auto alignment to the goal was imperative. In all situations, it brought our score up substantially.
-It also showed that we would need another cycler or defense breacher on our alliance in order to complete a breach.

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