Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #08418
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 19:05:21 -0500
Subject: Re: Head circuits
> In a message dated 12/18/99 5:47:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> phillip@ryals.com writes:
>
> > A head cicuit looks at the brightest light. Why not change the design
of
> the
> > average 'bot so that the solar panel is in line with the PD's? So that
the
> > solar cell points at the same thing the PD's point at. That way,
wherever
> > the brightest light is, you can always be sure that the robot is getting
> the
> > most out of it's light source. Especially if it can't go any farther
> toward
> > the light because of terrain.
> I've been thinking of something like that myself. I've been fiddling with
> Craig's solar power plant and keep wondering why I should have a bot go
find
> the thing, figure out how to get a connection to feed, and release when
> charged, when I could just stick the thing on it's back. A bot with a
solar
> array that is always kept at maximum charging angles. I suspect that the
> problem would be that the power required to move a 2DOF (which would be
> needed to account for pan and tilt) head simply to charge the bot may use
> more power than the gain it produces. Besides, Craig's solar power plant
> would make for a truly unique BEAM plant in the true sense of the name.
Ah,
> so many ideas and so little time.
>
> See ya,
> Jim
> http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/8281/beamart.html
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