January Servo Magazine

[Andrew Blair]

I think that Stanley's code is simpler in terms of less "if then" type conditionals, (generally speaking of course), as in constantly referencing set code in order to check what's happening. The code becomes more complicated, but less complex (I think thats right...) by utilizing an algorithm that creates it's own method of driving, i.e., it drives for awhile, sees what "driving" is, cataloges the characteristics of driving, and applies these characteristics to the present situation it's in. Therefore, it doesn't have to know everything, it just has to know what to do if something similar, or parallel happens.

[Nuttyman54]

Stanley doesn't "learn" how to drive perse. It uses what's known as "probablalistic robotics" to analyze the error in the data comming in from all sources, and then uses the most accurate data. I don't know much more about it, but Stanley did push the speed limit a number of times during the race.

[Ian Curtis]

I really enjoyed Servo's (or was it Nuts and Volts) articles on a FIRST team last year.

My only problem was in the calendar of events it made it sound like we build robots out of kits that are of the follow the directions to build the robot variety.