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Re: NXT Robot Swarm at BrickFest -- featuring Bluetooth
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lugnet.robotics.nxt
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Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:09:18 GMT
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The spec says that at most three other Bluetooth units may be connected to each
NXT unit for any given program, but with proper setup one unit could act as a
message-passing server for all the others in a swarm, or a simple broadcast
relay protocol could be designed to pass messages on through an arbitrary ad-hoc
chain of NXT units. With too many units in the same place, radio interference
would become a problem, but even if the swarms were only four units big, it
would certainly be cool just to try out what a small team of NXT units could do
in some sort of competition, task-oriented problem-solving or just plain
swarming.
I’m not going to BrickFest, but I would be happy to see this happen. It would be
very useful for a course on AI programming and interactive systems this spring
at the university where I work. If I’m lucky and I can present a good a plan for
what to do with them, I might be allowed to buy 10 NXT kits on my employer’s
expense and design advanced lab assignments around them. :D
Stefan G
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