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Re: One program!
No problem we will quote you.
"A team in New Hampshire accomplished all of last year's missions in one run. That is a very rare accomplishment. If you search through the archives from last year, you may find a link to a video of it.
A problem with running only one program is, what happens if something goes wrong and you have to restart? The robot will have to waste time retracing its steps on the missions or parts of missions that have been completed before it can try the one where it got off track. The reason the team in NH even attempted it was because one of the Forum's premier posters, Skye himself, had the opinion that it couldn't be done and they wanted to prove him wrong.
A team from Wisconsin completed all the missions without having to make any modifications to their robot (no changing arms, attachments, etc). They didn't use just one program without touching the robot in between. If I recall correctly, that was during the Ocean Odyessey challenge 2 years ago.
This year it would be even harder to do everything on one run, because so many of the missions are linked together with multiple parts.
You certainly can write a program that will accomplish several missions at the same time. In fact, this would likely be the only way to complete a significant number of the missions. There's just not enough time in 2.5 mintutes to waste it coming and going from Base for every mission individually. Pick 2 or 3 missions in the same vacinity of the table, and see if you can accomplish more than one of them using the same program.
- Gary"
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