Shouldnt you be the one who knows the answer to this question.

Steve
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Well I dont know who is left.

I am trying to get a set of rules of nailed down to put up on robowars2012.com.au.

So few points.

- Round Robin
- Autonomous 200% weight bonus
- Walker 200% weight bonus
- Shuffler 200% weight bonus with approval (No shuffler for the sake of weight bonus Son of Wyachi style)
- No Magnets
- If we get > 16 robots in any class will probably run multiple pools.

- No Flamethrowers
- Featherweights with Lipo batteries will require prior approval of battery mounting and armourment.
(These two are due to us being indoors.)
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If anyone is willing to do some work on the website let me know. Using simple online CMS will add any willing participants as editors.

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hmmm tell me more of this Autonomous class?
just how Autonomous are we talking?
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So the robot can not have any input other than a start/stop command from the user. Processing can be onboard or offboard, you may also install 1 or 2 of your own tracking cameras around the arena.

I would not recommend featherweight autonomous robots. But I am pretty keen to see some ant ones. Given that I have a POC almost working, for markered bots. It wouldnt be too hard to have your robot with a marker then just like do background subtraction to find your opponent.

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Standard RFL rules for autonomous at this stage?
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Autonomous will be expected to fight non autonomous but with 200% weight bonus and offboard comms then I think this is a significant advantage.

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ergh ants ;-< ;-P
even 2x weight is still sooo tiny lol.

I was thinking if i made one i could just post it up if somebody was able to run it.
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Sorry, Should have made it clearer. Safety rule wise for now with initial ideas/designs do RFL rules on autonomous cover things? Ie going from memory as my internet atm sucks must be turned on and off by something (eg hobby radio) light for each autonomous system, ....
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8hvyjZWHs

Yeh so my assumption is that you would be using a standard RC interface to control the robot if processing is offboard. So a switch to turn this off would be sufficient (same as turning off TX) if you have onboard processing then must be triggered by a RC and also have an additional light to indicate when Autonomy was activated inactivated.

@ Jake yeh I am thinking mostly ants as I dont really know about setting up stuff for beetles/feathers. You can make one but you would still need to attend to set up any external stuff and make it work.

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@Daniel any progress on registration page
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New web page is slowly coming together.....

http://robowars2012.weebly.com/

For sneak peek.

Not sure if I will even stick with this CMS but its a start. Will prolly do it myself from scratch, but time....

Steve
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I've set up and paid for the registration page. It just take a long time for the guy at the other end to hit to launch button.