Saturday, June 13, 2009

We took 2nd!

We placed 2nd and got a silver medal for Defconbots at Robogames 2009.






Here's the final round (below) - it came down to us versus Team Yuzhik again like last year. They did really well and were very accurate.

We did have a strength that Team Yuzhik didn't, but unfortunately we didn't have an opportunity to exploit it. Our system was very adaptable to quick calibration and changing conditions (because we have two cameras). Earlier in the day we noticed that Team Yuzhik's turret was extremely sensitive to calibration. Their gun was so accurate that if the calibration was even slightly off there was no hope of hitting a target if it didn't agree with the calibration the first time. This didn't come into play, however, because the competition did not require that the guns be moved and re-calibrated.

The targets were very springy and kept popping back up - it's sort of funny. Our final time was about 2.6 seconds per target. We're the gun on the right.

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