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Friends of ours in FTC last season balanced on a bridge like that with an opposing alliance robot that accidentally got on their bridge, all in autonomous. They paused for a few extra minutes between autonomous and tele-operated period to let people take pictures of it. Pretty impressive for high school kids.


So both robots were programmed to balance on a bridge but accidentally got on the same one and were still able to pull it off? That is impressive considering they would have to know not to push each other off but stay on the ends and scoot just a little bit until they balanced and react to how the other robot is shift its weight.


No only one was programmed to balance in autonomous. They'd only ever done it with just their bot in the middle of the bridge, but they were able to balance with the other one on there because they just kept backing up until the gyro sensor was level. I love it when you get to see unexpected behaviors from something you built.




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