IR during teleopertated period?

[Aubreii]

Without communication between the RoboCoach and the driver, this seemed to be a pretty useless feature. If your driver can't see 54', even with a few robots between them and their own, they need glasses (like me ). Walky-talkies aren't permitted, but we had thought about a hard-wired system. Myself and another member of our team are also in Theatre Tech, and we both thought of using the headsets we use during shows. However, the infrastructure needed for them ruled that out. If anyone comes up with a way to communicate without breaking the rules, we'd all be interested in hearing it.

[Nightfall831]

communication would definately be an issue...i found that out recently at a convention we took our robot to...i decided to sit on our bot while i drove it with my remote and the IR board....it was great untill our driver decided he wanted to drive from across the very large room...lets just say i got real friendly with the circuit breaker...

another problem our team has is that if the IR board recieves a command, it locks out the joysticks, so the actual driver loses control of the robot...

i actually just thought of a way to fix that, but god only knows if it will work....programming sucks...

an interesting thought i saw somewhere else was to have the robocoach send signals to the board to send signals to the driver if he cant see, but that seems like a waste of the limited number of commands we have.

[Clifford]

Unless you went completely autonomous. But who wants to do that when we've got a brand new toy?

[popo308]

Originally Posted by Clifford

Unless you went completely autonomous. But who wants to do that when we've got a brand new toy?

Exactly i just see it being an annoyance to the driver more than an assistance...