2004 Robot Controller

[Sachiel7]

Where have they said the same OIs are being used?
I haven't seen anything directly stating that. They Do still have links up to the "current" OIs manuals, but that doesn't mean much. They may upgrade it so it does have a higher transfer rate, and It may not use 900MHz radios anymore (Although I'm not sure why they'd switch) I doubt that they're going to use the STAMPs that are in the OI now to continue with next year's PIC based system. They'll probably bump the stamps to a PIC as well. Just my guess.
But when they say new control "system", that to me is different from new "RC". It also wouldn't make too much sense that the User_Routines.C Processes every 17ms if they're going to keep the transfer rate at 28ms. The main user_routines is designed for user drive mode, and it would mean every 2 cycles you would process the new data, thus your actual transfer time is more in the range of 34ms (for output), and would be a slowdown from this past year's system. It doesn't make sense.