nice, how do you do autonomous? I know you made custom path following stuff before, and I'm wondering if you're using that and made another tracking solution or if you're just using roadrunner or something. also, something that could be helpful is field-centric turret control instead of set positions, this would make it so the chassis would never need to turn when depositing freight as the driver controlling the turret would have an easier way of controlling it. also the suspension thing looks really cool, not exactly sure what it is but I like it
No odometry wheels this season. The barriers just got into the way. We just use the motor encoders for basic navigation. There are four blue horizontal wheels on each corner of the robot that we use for wall following - just like in the good old FLL times. There is a color sensor mounted on the bottom of the robot that detects the white line as we go in and out of the warehouse. That calibrates the x-position each time we cross the line. The wall resets y.
@@DrBatanga nice, also I was wondering about using something custom for tracking because roadrunner has the ability to track using drive encoders with mecanum wheels, which could be useful for making a faster auto and getting more cycles in.
