DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] Rules

Tue Sep 11 07:37:16 CDT 2001

Any two cans in any of the center areas (D, T, or E) are in a line.  After
all it only takes two points to define a line.  All the scooper has to do is
run at an angle across the area to get more than one can.

Ed Okerson

----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rodent" <daweasel at swbell.net>
To: "Dallas Personal Robotics Group" <dprglist at dprg.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [DPRG] Rules

> 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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