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Re: "Dud" robots

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Originally Posted by Yalib View Post
What about a robot losing communication? just e-stop him immediately? because usually a robot who lost com will "come back to life" after a number of seconds..
Well, if its a three second communications drop (which we and all of our alliance experienced at CMP a few times last year), then wait. If the cRIO reboots, it'll be more like 20 sec, and if the radio goes down, more like a minute, which is too long. You can't e-stop an unconnected robot.