Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #08524
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: Bruce Robinson Bruce_Robinson@telus.net
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:48:14 -0800
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Lets Hypothesise...
jester96beam@iname.com wrote:
>
> We do live in a 3D world. But to me it seems
> that our little bots DON'T. They live in a 2D
> world. They don't really have to worry about
> up or down.
Ever have one roll off the table?
Bruce
8525 Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:41:23 PST [alt-beam] Re: Lets Hypothesise... beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "Timothy Flytcher" Maybe they need to... It is a very important part of self preservation... A
form of instinct??? Don't jump from the table, you will die...
Timothy...
>We do live in a 3D world. But to me it seems that our little bots DON'T.
>They live in a 2D world. They don't really have to worry about up or down.
>
>Chris
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8526 Mon, 20 Dec 1999 23:53:20 PST [alt-beam] Re: Stay on target (Was...Lets Hypothesise) beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "Timothy Flytcher" What about sub sonic... Works for rabbits... rabbits communicant by thumping
a foot on the ground... Our bots already emit sub sonics as a free
byproduct...
Timothy...
>Lets get back to the question at hand....
>
>
>Q: How can you measure distance between two robots in different mediums?
>(i.e. in a vacuum, in water, in air)
>
>A:
>
>
>Is there a method that will work for all three?
>What are the options available?
>Are some options too power hungry or to fast to be used in BEAM type
>applications?
>
>
>Options i can think of are....
> Ultra sonic, IR radar, Laser range finding, Microwave radar, Long
>wavelength radar.
>
>
>Discuss, theorize, hypothesise on the above methods (or others) and
>their potential application to BEAM robots.
>
>NOTE: The question is not should distance measurement be done.....but
>_how_ can it be done!
>
>
>Elmo
>
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8527 Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:00:21 PST [alt-beam] Re: Keeping things simple... beam@sgiblab.sgi.com "Timothy Flytcher" Arguing??? I thought we were brain storming....
Timothy...
>Hehe, that's a good question! What are we arguing for?! :)
>
>jester96beam@iname.com wrote:
> >
> > BTW, WHY exactly do the bots need to know how far away an obstacle is?
>Am I missing something?
> >
> > Chris
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8528 Tue, 21 Dec 1999 07:58:37 -0500 Re: Keeping things simple... Timothy Flytcher
> Arguing??? I thought we were brain storming....
> Timothy...
In our society, at present, you have to agree with everyone. Conflicting
points of view are discouraged, even villified! I would be called a racist,
mean-spirited, hater of bunnies and puppies by the press if we were public
figures!
Richard the Bad Guy (Lover of Debate)
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