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In article <20916@sri-unix.SRI.COM> larson@snmp.sri.com (Alan Larson) writes:

     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.

I agree -- if you really want to demonstrate the feasibility of
*small* lunar probes, you should prohibit either tethers or local
observations.  All necessary processing and/or communications hardware
should be onboard.

It would be particularly unfair to allow teleoperated vehicles to use
tethers or local observations and not to allow autonomous robots to do
their processing on external hardware (connected via tethers).

On the other hand, if what you're interested in is demonstrating the
capabilities of AI algorithms and/or teleoperation for lunar
exploration, then you could remove all restrictions on the the
hardware (size, power, tethers, etc.)  Though, I still think a 2-3
second delay should be implemented on the teleoperated systems and
local observations should be prohibited.
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Brian Yamauchi				University of Rochester
yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu		Department of Computer Science
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