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Originally Posted by sparksandtabs
but that is a good point now that u mention it, in what ways can you make a very simple inexpensive robot learn?
but the harder question is to ask learn what?
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Learning the field is good and helpful, but not much more learning than line following or using encoders on a known field. Learning, I think would have to do with adapting itself to changing situations to better it's position. A truly smart robot would be able to play by itself the whole match. It would see what the other robots are doing, and be able to accomplish tasks not directly specified in responce to it's own input. As simple as line following is, it is close to what it takes, if only it could know more that what is direcly underneith it. While I think a full sized computer drivin robot might be able to accomplish some of this, I don't think those little contolers would be able to process that much. Behold the power of the human mind! 100MHz, several billion parellel processors with fuzzy logic! YEAH
We are working now on a way to basically program a map into the robot so it can know where it is, where it is facing, where it wants to go, and can figure out how to get there. It can tell movement based on encoders, can tell which direction it is facing with encoders, can even tell where it needs to go, but to find out how to get there with obsticals, that is hard.