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Re: Winter mega challenge?
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lugnet.org.us.smart
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Mon, 3 Mar 2003 03:39:06 GMT
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In lugnet.org.us.smart, Mark Kenworthy writes:
> I was browsing the Seattle Robotics Club pages and saw the link to the fire
> fighting robot contest (http://www.trincoll.edu/events/robot/default.htm).
> There is a northwest qualifier event for this held March 15 this year.
> While it is too late for this year, maybe we could consider this as a mega
> challenge for next Winter, with the goal of sending some robots to at least
> the NW qualifying event? What do people think?
This sounds like it could be a good idea for next year. Thanks for
suggesting it. We might alternatively consider a "SMART-Team" robot. Any
ideas on how to accomplish that?
The one thing that would make it quite difficult for Lego robots is section
18: Penalties. Specifically, "Touching a wall". Since feelers are heavily
penalized (5 seconds added to your time per touch, or 1 second per 2cm of
sliding!) you'd need a different method of navigating.
Perhaps as a mini-challenge sometime we could have a simple one-foot wide
maze of walls that your robot must navigate. If you can do it without
touching the walls, then you'd be more prepared for finding and fighting a fire.
--
David Schilling
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| (...) I was thinking IR proximity sensors (HiTechnic). Given the experience I have with them thus far, I think they would work well in the environment described in the rules. I think the final robot would likely require more than one RCX, given the (...) (21 years ago, 3-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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