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Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 9/7/2000 3:00 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Balls posted by Jason Iannuzzi on 9/7/2000 12:50 PM MST:



I am fairly certain that this could be done with stuff in the kit.

Don't get me wrong, it would be a huge challenge, but I think it could be done.

My major concerns are with the following:
I am not sure that the control system could stand the dead zone in the midde of the Victors and I am concerned about the updated rate to the Victors (50Hz for the link from the Robot Controller to the Victor and data packets at the rate of 40Hz -- probably not fast enough).

In addition, I think that the robot could not do much else beyond balance on 2 wheels. There is not likely to be enough CPU power to do much else. Beyond this, waving arms & actuators would definitely make the system more challenging to control.

It would be an interesting machine, even if it didn't do much to play the game.

Joe J.