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[DPRG] Rules
Subject: [DPRG] Rules
From: Rodent
daweasel at swbell.net
Date: Mon Sep 10 21:47:37 CDT 2001
We probably need to sit down and revise the rules *after* the next event.
Of course you could always make sure no two cans were in line with each
other when viewed from area A.
----- Original Message -----
> 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.
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