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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
A concur with those who think that this years Autonomous will be anything but easy and boring.
Joe J.
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I don't think it will be boring or easy, but I do think it will LOOK boring and easy to people whose chief interest is the autonomous programming. I have a mentor who is a brilliant CS professor. When I first described the game to him he said "so you do all this work for three minutes of play?" I think that tomorrow he might say "so I have to do all this work for 15 seconds, and I already have some of the problems figured out for me?" And to be honest, I can talk about all those options you described, but it seems like most teams will end up accomplishing that by dead reckoning, and thats just developing a simple framework for step-by-step movement and then testing and plugging in numbers. It isn't boring because everyone will do it a different way and there will be all sorts of interesting collisions and erratic behavior, and I'd imagine that for most teams it isn't easy, but to a brilliant CS professor, or a certain kind of sponsor, it might not be too interesting. I don't know at this point how much room or need there is for sensors and artificial intelligence and weird algorithms I won't understand. I'll have to think about it.
~Gabe