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2005-09-14 Home Front: Tech

The âGrand Challengeâ Robot Vehicle Race

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Posted by Steve 2005-09-14 10:16|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The entire "Battlebots" philosophy will do more to stimulate innovation in design than just about any other technique. Darwinistic design evolution is even being done at the software level to see if virtual organisms can be created that mimic real ones. It works.

I might suggest thinking outside the box, however. Right now, everyone probably thinks of having a complete "brain" in the vehicle, using satellite GPS for guidance. However, practically speaking, this only gives the vehicle a two-dimensional view of the terrain. This would be the way a human driver would have to do it, but the robotic guidance does not have that inherent limitation.

That is, if they permitted low and/or medium altitude guidance from a non-entrant aircraft, it could give them an essential angular 3rd dimension to evaluate the terrain with. Either a government UAV or military aircraft, providing equal info feeds to all participants.

Right now, they expect too much from their integrated guidance. Computer brains are hard-pressed to handle abstracts like perspective, instant evaluation of soil type, objective and subjective navigation, etc. So they rely too much on trying to "brute force" their way through innumerable obstacles.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-14 12:22|| 2005-09-14 12:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Attention Attention..calling all Ships..calling all Ships. <)

/so solly Moosey. ;)

Posted by Spiting Whaviper5458 2005-09-14 14:46|| 2005-09-14 14:46|| Front Page Top

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