[timothyb89]

This is something myself and a few friends were (somewhat seriously) joking about last year and a bit this year. In the end we settled on using an ANN and it got to the point where one was started, but that was about it. It's still something we're interested in, but I still have a feeling the best option would be to avoid AI entirely.

From my experience, it just requires too much processing power and storage space- for example, one of the bots that hangs out in our chatroom was recently outfitted with an AI, and its database grew to about half a gig in around two weeks from just working with text. Not only that, but searching through all that data to find the relevant bits would take up an entire core on a reasonably beefy processor. I'd hate to see how the cRIO would handle something like that.

Anyway, for a relatively low-powered device like the cRIO I'd have to recommend just hardcoding everything. That, and creative use of a bunch of sensors all around the robot. Without enough sensors I don't think a robot could reasonably compete with the (human) driver, but if used correctly, they could give the robot a good advantage. It'd be hard, but pretty awesome!