Thread: Peer-to-Peer Alliance Robot Coordination
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Unread 16-02-2012, 15:22
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Peer-to-Peer Alliance Robot Coordination
This year's game provides several scenarios where automated robot-to-robot coordination could be utilized (both between alliances and very decidedly within an alliance). This coordination could occur with or without driver control.

I'm not aware of any peer-to-peer protocol existing currently within the FIRST FRC robotics platform - yet the existence of such could enable a new-level of game-play and engineering innovation. One can imagine in 2012 the ability to communicate (via a blackboard-paradigm, perhaps) and coordinate dynamic tactical moves between 2-3 robots on the end-game bridge.

Another opportunity in 2012 is to communicate the expected path of each robot on an alliance in order to adaptively plot a robot's path to avoid collision.

This may seem far-fetched, but it is a direction of current robotics research and future development. And what better place for it to grow than within the "Gracious Professionalism" environment filled w/the next generation of robotics professionals.....

If anyone has any thoughts or is aware of any other initiatives in this direction, please let me know.
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