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Re: Land mine robot
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:18:57 GMT
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Pete Hardie <pete.hardie@sciatlNOSPAM.com>
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Chris Osborn wrote:
> In article <3E22E6EB.8010100@sciatl.com>,
> Pete Hardie <pete.hardie@sciatl.com> wrote:
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> > Why even use sand at all? If the challenge is for mine detection,
> > use a flat surface, and have the mines be attached to the underside.
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> Why underneath? A flat surface with paper discs taped down to
> represent mines would be fine. Then the light sensor could be used to
> detect them. After all, the point is really to find them without
> rolling over any while searching. You'd need to be able to see whether
> it has "set off" any mines during the process.
I specified underneath to make it unlikely that the robot would detect them by
either optical means (because I assumed that the challenge was for a non-visual
method), and to prevent any cheating by a team using some form of IR flash to
inform the robot of the mine.
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