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Beacons in Joel's challenge, (was Re: Soda-can challenge: beacons, tethers, etc.
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 5 Aug 1999 00:39:37 GMT
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How about using beacons to locate your position in the room? Can the robot
place one beacon in each corner of the 8x8 room and then triangulate off the
four beacons while navigating the rest of the room to find the cams?
By the way, I didn't see this reply in the other thread so I replied to the
previous message before I got a chance to read the message to which I am
replying now. And, I'm behind a firewall so I can't use a newsreader to cancel
my other message.
Can you set some setting in your news reader so your replies actually stick to
the thread you're replying to rather than making new threads? It would make
things a lot better for everyone, I think.
- Robert Munafo
LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13
In lugnet.robotics, Joel Shafer writes:
> > Beacons are illegal, however you may use any non-active means to identify
> > location. Someone suggested painting the floor with an increasing gradient
> > of darkness.
>
> Let me re-phrase that. The rules specifically prohibit beacons from being
> used to locate the cans, however, the rules don't prohibit using beacons to
> "return to base". The rules to the challenge were originally much more
> strict and perhaps too challenging for someone to do with a mindstorms unit
> in his spare time. If all you need is a beacon to get your bot to return
> to the starting position then go for it.
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