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Re: Can the Pilot do anything during autonomous?

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Originally Posted by jee7s View Post
There is an ambiguity, though not related to the OP.

Picture a robot that preloads a gear and 10 fuel, delivers the gear to the boiler facing side of the airship, then backs up to deliver fuel to the boiler. Suppose the reversing to the boiler is initiated by a state change on a contact switch indicating the gear is present. When the gear is removed, the robot backs up.

In that scenario, is the removal of the gear providing a control signal to the robot? Q&A shall decide, I suppose.
if our gear delivery required it to be lifted out, we would do this. It is not a crazy idea. The question certainly needs an answer from the GDC.

I would also argue that the program could be such that the state change of the gear being removed from the sensor is not necessarily a control input, but still may be an indirect input. The argument would go as such.
  1. The program is periodically checking for the presence of the gear
  2. if the program detects that there is no gear, the autonomous program continues along a different logic path (driving away vs not driving)
  3. the robot has no way of knowing how or why the gear is not there

it's not a good argument, but it is an argument. I think it could still be ruled as indirect control which is still not allowed. in that case, we'd just have to go off time and hope.
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