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Ideas for next RCX competition
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lugnet.org.us.smart
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Tue, 14 May 2002 20:24:59 GMT
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I've now entered the last two contests, and seen the last three, and I'm
getting some ideas on how it could potentialy be improved. Overall I still
think it's a great contest, and run quite well. I had a blast every time I
came! I think with the recent changes to the sumo contest, it is about as
good as it can be. I also think the various divisions of line tracking are
quite interesting and probably the most fair, since the number and types of
pieces that one owns has little to do with how well you place. The main
change that I think would benefit would be in the gathering catagory.
The problem with gathering the way it is now is that the inventions tend to
be either extremely complex, or extremely simple. The winning robot this
last time was so simple that it didn't seem quite worthy (not to offend
anyone of course) in terms of how much energy went into designing and
building it. Then the second place robot was Gus's incredible, beautifully
engineered machine that for good reason, no one has been able to match in
terms of efficiently picking up pucks.
The problem lies in the pucks. They are flush with the ring surface, and
therefore need a complex mechanism to pick them up efficiently like Gus's,
however, they are very easy to simply herd. My suggestion is to make this
contest avaliable to everyone by elimiating the easy solution of herding,
while also making it easier to pick up the objects. I suggest using the
other objects that come in the robo sports kit: the yellow foam balls. I
also suggest that in the rules, in order to be considered to be in control
of a ball, it must not be touching the surface of the arena.
This way, herding is eliminated, but since it's easier to pick up the balls,
more people can have a chance at it. Then the real difficulty will be
manuvering around the other robots and managing to store all of the balls in
a one cubic foot robot.
I think this would make for a much more interesting contest that more people
could do well in. Thanks for hearing me out! I'd love to see some replies.
-Emmett
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| (...) Thanks for the comments - but just so there's no confusion, the Workshop 3D RCX Challenge isn't sponsored or run by SMART. I'll make sure that Ray sees your comments. By the way, I also had a blast at the last competition! (...) I'm not sure (...) (23 years ago, 17-May-02, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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