DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] Rules

Mon Sep 10 21:19:32 CDT 2001

The original thought on this (I think I helped write the rules), was that a
robot could either indicate with a beep or something that he found a can,
and he could get points even if it did not have a gripper. For the robots
with grippers, if they found a can, and picked it up, they did not have to
do anything additional like beep to indicate they saw it.

We did not think of the possibility of long arms that would just grab the
cans that it ran into without knowing if it got a can or not.  That was a
failure of the people that created the rules.  We probably should have
thought of it later because the first successful can collector was
Herky-Jerky using double sided tape around the outside of the robot. It got
2 or 3 cans to stick to the sides as it ran around the course and returned
to the side lines.

Kip

----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ralph Tenny" <rten at metronet.com>
To: "Ed Okerson" <eokerson at fw.telenic.net>
Cc: <DPRGlist at dprg.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [DPRG] Rules

> Ed:
> In my opinion, there should be some specific indication that each can was
> noticed. So, the scooper should get points for returning the cans, but
> not for locating them. But, what do I know?
> Ralph
>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Ed Okerson wrote:
>
> > Since I volunteered to be a judge for some the events on Saturday, I
thought
> > it a good idea to read over the rules and came up with a question.  In
the
> > rules for can-can it is stated:
> >
> > Cans that are retrieved are automatically counted as being correctly
> > located.
> >
> > Does this mean that "scooper" style bots that simply run in a straight
line
> > and scoop up as many cans as the human lined it up to get are awarded
n*15
> > for collecting the cans as well as n*10 for locating the cans?  Doesn't
seem
> > right to me since the robot didn't locate the cans, the human did.  Just
> > thought I would ask what the opinions of the club were.
> >
> > Ed Okerson
> >
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