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Wifi on Robots
I'm aware that rule <R59> says that custom circuits may not be used for wireless communication, such as sending signals to and from the alliance base station.
It is perfectly reasonable to rule out wireless control other than IFI devices, anything else would be unsafe. However, I've worked out a method of interfacing wifi to our robot. Would using approx. five wifi-access points with known locations to "triangulate" the robot's position with a great degree of accuracy in a gps style be against this rule? This is much more of a passive sensing thing than a "communication" thing, really. I'm almost finished developing this system and I'd very much like to use it in competition. What do you people think the judge's/inspector's reactions would be? Is this illegal or not? While it might violate the letter of the rule, I don't think it violates the spirit.
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