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Originally Posted by Turtlecoach
If the Field is going to control the robots via IR, then and only then will the robots not need emitters. And since it would be much easier to control all robots via RF instead of IR, I don’t think that is the case.
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I disagree with this.
The field does not need to "control" the robot at all, but "inform" the robot about something (ie. the colour of the goal, what piece this goal accepts, etc..) which is not so easily done through RF.
I believe this seems more like what will happen because the IR signals are jammed very easily (try programming a remote to your board, push a programmed button, and then push a button on a different control from about 10 feet away). This means that if the emitters move around the field, things will be jammed all the time.
It seems more logically (to me anyways) that the emitters will be fixed, so they cannot jam on another and each robot will have to have their IR board programmed to the signals (much like callobrating the camera last year to see that particular light in that building), so more than one robot can interact with the signal at the same time.
Just MHO
