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RE: Mindstorm Robotwars style competition in Southern California/Los Angesles area?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:04:22 GMT
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Tim McSweeney <TIM@AMS.CO.NZnomorespam>
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This raised an interesting thought in my head. Suppose you allow teams of
robots to compete, Communication would be essential for both teams, so how
would you filter out hostile messages from you own? The easiest way would
be to force the teams to adhere to a standard, say 4bit id, 4 bits data per
message, you could then ignore messages with the wrong id. It's more
interesting if you allow a free for all.
One thought was that you could usee say 4 bits hashcode, 4 bits data, The
RCX will only accept the message if the hashcode is correct for the data
according to some predefined (secret function)
Another option would be to start with an initial code then the next code is
defined by running the current code through some function. Messages are
only accepted if the code matches the current one, when a message is
accepted the code is advanced. This has problems with keeping multiple
robots in sync of course.
Are these essentially the same? what are some other options?
Cheers
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: news@lugnet.com [mailto:news@lugnet.com]On Behalf Of Mark
> Tarrabain
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 9:40 AM
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: Re: Mindstorm Robotwars style competition in Southern
> California/Los Angesles area?
>
>
> You know, I really believe that disallowing IR is a bad idea.
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> Although I would agree that using the IR to shut down or
> disable opponents is a Bad
> Thing(tm), and should result in disqualification, IR usage
> that can be justifiably
> used in a non-offensive manner should really be allowed.
>
> I can think of two examples right off the top of my head
> where this could be used:
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> 1) Using IR to function as sonar.
> 2) In the Freeweight category, where there is no (current)
> limit on what can be put
> into a robot, 2 RCX's could theoretically be used in a single
> robot. They should
> be allowed to use IR to communicate.
> --
> Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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