Go to Post I believe that FIRST in itself is a reward. - link871 [more]
Home
Go Back   Chief Delphi > Competition > Rules/Strategy
CD-Media   CD-Spy  
portal register members calendar search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read FAQ rules

 
 
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #1   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 17-01-2005, 15:31
dhitchco's Avatar
dhitchco dhitchco is offline
Awards/Photo/Video "wizard"
AKA: Doug Hitchcock
FRC #1511 (Rolling Thunder)
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Rookie Year: 2005
Location: Rochester, NY USA
Posts: 333
dhitchco has a brilliant futuredhitchco has a brilliant futuredhitchco has a brilliant futuredhitchco has a brilliant futuredhitchco has a brilliant futuredhitchco has a brilliant futuredhitchco has a brilliant futuredhitchco has a brilliant futuredhitchco has a brilliant futuredhitchco has a brilliant futuredhitchco has a brilliant future
Need for some official DEFINITIONS

The following terms are not "officially" defined in the "definitions" section (4.2.1) of the manual; namely they don't appear in BOLDFACE and ALL CAPS. These terms could use some official definitions since there is some ambiguity as brought out in this forum in several threads:

1) What defines "DISABLED". This particularly applies to what the robot's on-board system is capable of doing by itself when the driver's controls are "disabled" by the step pad, the referee, etc. Examples of this involve the robot pre-screening and viewing the field BEFORE the game starts as the visual tetras are randomly placed and/or during the game if the robot is somehow temporarily "disabled" from driving. Smarter robots will be able to do a lot of on-board processing while supposedly being disabled. ref 3.4.3 and 4.3.2

2) What defines "ACTIVATED". As called out in 4.2.2, it discusses "activation" of the driver control stations. This ties to point #1 above about being TOTALLY disabled.

3) What officially defines "ENABLES OPERATIONS". As called out in 3.4.3, this refers to the status of the robot while the human player steps off of the pressure mat. It's not clear that the robot can or cannot still do "anything" while the human player is off the pad (other than driving is disabled)

4) Although the term "AUTONOMOUS PERIOD" is in the definitions, it doesn't clearly stipulate what the robot can or cannot do during the time period before or after the AUTONOMOUS PERIOD.

It's all just a fun game, but it's like the rules in golf and in life. Rules are rules.....period.
 


Thread Tools
Display Modes Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
FIRST Official Q&A Website KevinB General Forum 6 10-01-2005 13:30
5th Annual Ramp Riot (Official Thread) OZ_341 Off-Season Events 56 18-11-2004 05:05
offseason comp. in Albion MI (Now official) Allison K Off-Season Events 4 10-06-2004 17:35
Question: Gas Shocks?? Official answer Mike Martus OCCRA 0 28-10-2003 10:25
The New FIRST official Uniforms Robby O Rumor Mill 8 27-02-2002 22:04


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:24.

The Chief Delphi Forums are sponsored by Innovation First International, Inc.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © Chief Delphi