04-04-2010, 22:37
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Re: Rosie stuffs Thrust
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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
...when does the act of self-righting end? When at least one robot drive wheel returns to contacting the ground? If so, then Rosie violated the 10-second protection rule. If self-righting is defined as extending the self-righting mechanism, then Rosie contacted 1501 again after 1501 deployed their mechanism and started to fall back to normal orientation. I imagine the GDC prefers the former definition, but that's just an assumption. Someone might want to ask for further clarification.
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I figured it ended when the robot was righted... Isn't that what righting aims to do? I mean, robots tip onto 2 wheels a lot, are they banned from righting?
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