Air Defense System

[tcjinaz]

Originally Posted by Ninja_Bait

If you can hit a ball with another ball, you should:
a. work for NASA and:
b. use your impressive engineering and programming skills to make a killer offensive robot instead of a defensive one.

First, I yield to <G13> The strategy I proposed will quite likely blow every target out of the Field and into the stands. Safety First.

Onward:
Ah, the reason you don't think I already work for such an outfit is what? (Watch the .sigs)

NASA historically doesn't try to hit other things. Other Agencies (SDI, <litany of US DoD orgs> et al) have tried and succeeded to do so, repeatedly.

Deflection (note, not destruction) of a basketball with another basketball using a control system with a 50mS control loop at ~12ft ranges with known targets from a relatively fixed position near those targets should be easier that dropping the same ball into a basket. Such an automated response during tele-op mode is not unreasonable.

Sure, I start with 2 rounds. I can reload, and if my team sees the value, they'll reload me.

And if I am sitting in the opposition's key, I'm at 84in for the sensor, shooter or both.

Of course, if we get it wrong, we drop balls into the opposition goals. How is that scored?


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