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Re: rtlToronto 16: DARPA Eat Your Heart Out
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Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:59:15 GMT
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Chris Magno wrote:
> If I have a ~few~ million dollars I'd hire out the RTL core list
> and a few others, then enter something like that DARPA game.
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> -------------picture it---------------------,
What I picture is the whole group showing up with about a dozen different
robots (because everybody had good ideas, and no "best" idea could be settled
upon), and 11 of the 12 completing the qualifier faster than any other team.
> Jeff Elliott wrote:
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> > build an autonomous robot ground vehicle to traverse a 200-mile
> > desert on- and offroad course... in ten hours or less...
> >
> > And you know what my most lasting impression was? "This is
> > *just* like an rtl event."
OK, but I *really* want to see a battery box navigating waypoints at 20 mph
(sorry, 9 m/s).
> > Of course, our batteries wouldn't make 200 miles, and it'd
> > be more like 200 hours. But 1.3 mile course?... Hmmm.
I'd love to see it - a *true* outdoors, off-road, long distance (at least a
couple hundred feet (60 m)).
--
Brian Davis
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| :) Jeff, I have been following this "glorified line following contest" and I am impressed by it. your play-by-play just gave me my morning smile. thank you. I want to go on and brag, but you said it best already! ---...---snip---...--- I hate to say (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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