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Re: The Scout brick: smart or dumb? (was: Robotics Discovery Set)
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:47:11 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, lego-robotics@crynwr.com (John Barnes) writes:
> [...] What is behaviour? A particular
> sequence of moves? Just how many program steps can there be?[...]
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> 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 x 4 = 4096
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> Six program steps x 4 move types at each step. Remove a few trivial
> ones and maybe you get to 3000?
(This is a reply to the orphan message http://www.lugnet.com/robotics/?n=6750)
My point was, that his description did not specify what was missing. He said
nothing about "program steps" and imagining such steps gets us no closer to the
truth. Here is Robert's text again so you can read it:
> In lugnet.robotics, Robert Eddings writes:
> > [...] The "3000 different behaviors" is a bit misleading. The Scout
> > has four preset actions each for motion, touch, and light (listed
> > below). The different combinations of theses is what they mean by
> > behaviors.
> >
> > -MOTION- | -TOUCH- | -LIGHT-
> > forward | reverse | seek [presumably "forward" = "straight" -ed]
> > zigzag | avoid | avoid
> > circle | waitfor | waitfor
> > loop | brake | brake
> >
> > [...] The Scout documentation says that the RCX can send a number
> > value between 1-12 to the Scout via IR. It is not said what this
> > does but I can assume this controls the 12 preset actions. I will
> > have to test this to find out. [...]
- Robert Munafo http://www.mrob.com/
LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13
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