We decided in a previous post that our robot was not going to use an ultrasonic sensor. This left us with little option but to sweep the arena until we found our opponent. Being quick, while also powerful this was no issue. With our white deploy-able ramp now in tow we could lift robots up so that they would get false readings or they would just see the colour white and reverse themselves, without us pushing.
We programmed our robot to go forward until it saw white, reverse for 2 seconds, turn for 0.5 seconds then repeat. In practice this worked well and we decided it would work well in competition.
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