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Originally Posted by Andrew
Maybe the robots themselves will have an IR sensor and our robots can recognize each other and cooperate (or compete or cooperpete or whatever). In this case, it would have to be mandatory that you broadcast.
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I was thinking about that, the reason I don't think FIRST would do that is because... IR sensors are one directional. Sure, you can transfer some information from one to another similar to a remote does with a TV, but you'd have to aim the sensor at the other robot. From what I've seen this year and last, it's a pretty big step to do something like that to have the sensor track and find the other robots... it just seems too complicated to be used next year... maybe once teams get more comfortable with autonomous, I'd think. I do have a hunch that robots will communicate with each other (actually I thought they would this year) through a secondary radio system... which wouldn't require the robots to point towards the other to transmit... I think we'll see something similar to that before teams are forced to make a system use IR and find another robot and transmit... while still tracking that robot. Just seems like too many variables/problems to be introduced when teams are still having so many troubles with the simple autonomous modes as they are now.