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Re: Seeking Programming Assistance
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
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Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:20:57 GMT
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It's a pitty that LEGO is used by military, i.e. by people who
are trained to kill other people...
Pavel.
Jude Tomasello wrote:
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> Hi, my name is Jude Tomasello. I am a US Army civilian and am currently
> taking a class in which we are involved in using the Lego Mindstorm as a
> simulation for an unmanned ground vehicle. Because of its versatility, we are
> using NQC instead of the RCX standard code. My partner and I have written a
> program and debugged it through several compile attempts and support from Mr
> Baum and Mr Overmars. The vehicle will have two sensors up front and is
> supposed to run a course by tracking white tape on the ground. It is also
> supposed to detect "mines" (CDROMs placed on the ground). As I said before, we
> have done some code ourselves. Part of the course is a "make or buy" outsource
> assessment, just as one would do in an actual program office. Accordingly, I
> am soliciting anyone interested out there to write a program in NQC to do the
> things we need it to do. I have a PowerPoint file that details the specific
> requirements and if you are interested, please email me at
> jude_tomasello@stricom.army.mil and I will send it to you. My deepest
> appreciation to anyone who participates in this exercise by writing code for us
> to base a comparison. Again, thanks tremendously for your help and I look
> forward to hearing from you.
>
> Regards,
> Jude
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Pavel Petrovic, petrovic@idi.ntnu.no
Research Fellow, Department of Computer and Information Science,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
URL: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~petrovic/
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| However I would prefer them to use robots for mine clearing than humans! See > > supposed to detect "mines" Neil "Pavel Petrovic" <petrovic@idi.ntnu.no> wrote in message news:3972FA29.800201...ntnu.no... (...) we are (...) written a (...) from Mr (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| Pavel, I'm very glad they are using something which is fast and easily adapted. The United States military includes some of the finest people in the world. I'm might proud to support them. Way to go, folks! Regards to all vets and current U.S. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| Hi, my name is Jude Tomasello. I am a US Army civilian and am currently taking a class in which we are involved in using the Lego Mindstorm as a simulation for an unmanned ground vehicle. Because of its versatility, we are using NQC instead of the (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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