[ale] robots

[Thompson Freeman]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Joseph A Knapka wrote:

> Pete Hardie wrote:
> > 
> > Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > >
> > > Who cares?  Certainly they don't - and as long as my bots have legs that
> > > are too strong for the blades to cut and some means of detecting and
> > > correcting a blade jam (sense blade motion; reverse blade motion if
> > > blade is stuck), what do I care if they bump into each other?
> > >
> > > > Or as you discussed having real dumb
> > > > avoidance/collision behavior.
> > >
> > >   My mowbots can be safely investigated,
> > > sniffed at, and even peed on by cats, dogs, and kids.
> > 
> > I'm curious about something here - I may have missed some of the discussion -
> > but it seems to me that the issue of bot collision and kidproofing you describe
> > seem to contradict each other - the bots are tough enough to not be harmed by
> > a leg getting into the cutter, but the cutter is not going to cut the nose off
> > a curious dog?
> 
> Presumably if the cutters cut slowly enough, the curious
> critters will have time to get out of their grip before
> any serious damage is done. And a minor nip might
> discourage further investigation.
> 
> Still, I think the blade-jam-detection-and-reverse
> plan might be better.

I would suspect both a blade-jam plan _and_ a proximity detector  would be
better yet. 

> 
> -- Joe
>    Looking for a new .sig.
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