** Reply to message from Gus Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 22 May 2008 15:04:52 -0700
Cool! A quick glance at the rules and it looks like a robot with a eye-in-the-sky would be allowed. Or more correctly, not dis-allowed. So, the quick solution is a robot with a helium baloon attached via tether and small RF camera onboard. Let that out enough to see the entire maze, send down the image, plot the course from the image using distance of tether for scale and cheap contact sensors to sense walls if you happen to get the scale off. Heck, throw a calibration design on the top of your robot to help calc scale. Better make sure the wheels don't slip much either or distance cals will go south quickly. A cross breeze would really screw things up also. http://216.39.226.150/iaroc/index.php/Main_Page/Rules#Robot Doug -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
