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Originally Posted by Jared341
If FIRST were to provide a server implementations and simple API for each of the cRIOs (with plenty of checks in place to limit maximum messaging rates), there would be some intriguing possibilities. Ultimately, though, I doubt that wireless inter-robot communications will ever be a part of the game because it would put teams who can't afford to build multiple robots (or who can't practice with many other teams during build) at an enormous disadvantage - they wouldn't be able to even experiment robot communication until their practice day.
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Not necessarily true.
With a common query / report protocol, a ‘dummy’ robot program could be set up in a PC. This would give all teams a chance to test their inter-robot communications without having a second robot.
The biggest hurdle that I see is limiting each teams bandwidth so as to not saturate the available bandwidth. This should be able to be accomplished through the FPGA and FCS.