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Article #1153Re: Request for Feedback on Proposed Lunar Analog Robotics Contest
From: Alan Larson
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 1991 21:02
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 1991 21:02
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If you are going to require small size for the lunar robot contest, and limit the power sources to lunar capable ones, allowing wire connections or local visual observations is a bit imbalanced. If you are talking about the 3 second delay from earth based teleoperation, why aren't you including the difficulty of radio communications back to earth. A quick check will discover that the video transmitter will suck a fair chunk of power over that range. It is probably more reasonable to simplify the requirements to only test the robotics (and possibly the AI) part, as the communications part could overwhelm the efforts of individuals or small groups. Alan
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