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Re: New Lego challenge !
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:23:01 GMT
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Laurentino Martins wrote:
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> At 03:35 13-09-1999 Monday , Mike Poindexter wrote:
> > Got it figured out. Using the principles of right handed recursion, you can
> > have the robot follow the right wall and it will eventually get to the light
> > and also get out of the maze again.
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> > Incidentally, right handed recursion will get you out of any labyrinth
> > provided that you are not starting inside it already. If you are already in
> > it, it will likely work there as well. This would then allow the robot to
> > work in almost any maze you create.
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> Yes, unfortunately the current firmware implementation from LEGO doesn't have a call stack, so you can not build recursive routines. :-(
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> On the other hand I can imagine labyrinths where that bot would never be able to do anything out of them.
A call stack is not an absolute requirement to do recursive processing, it just
makes it easier. I have written recursive processes with only an array.
-Wes
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| (...) light (...) in (...) able to do anything out of them. (...) Unfortunately, the default RCX firmware doesn't support arrays, either. Also, the assertion that you can simply follow a wall in order to traverse an entire labyrinth actually depends (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Lego challenge !
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| (...) Yes, unfortunately the current firmware implementation from LEGO doesn't have a call stack, so you can not build recursive routines. :-( On the other hand I can imagine labyrinths where that bot would never be able to do anything out of them. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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