SumoBot - "Snap Crackle and Pop" video1 - Communication Test

Testing the communication between the RCXs in a simple dancing exercise, a Master robot sends a message to the Slave informing it to change the direction of its motors, making them move together. The idea is to produce a Sumo Robot and compete against the rest of the group; after the rest of the group began adopting similar strategies to ours we decided to retalliate by developing a robot that split into two to work cooperatively with each other!
The purpose of this experiment is to look into using the Infra Red ports on the LEGO RCX for communication.

The Robot was programmed in NQC.

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• UWE
• University
• West
• England
• 2N24
• lego
• sumo
• robot

[TorikuTheTraveller]

not in Sumo, as the robots were all geared for torque the opponent was always moving slowly, as was mine, so the lag wasn't much of a problem in here. In a higher speed application it might affect you, as you have no direct control over the way the RCXs communicates; you have a choice of so many numbers, you transmit it, other RCX units that recieve it store it in a memory location associated with the IR link and then that RCX will have to check that memory location for the number recieved.

[dozentrio]

did you find that the slight lag from one robot responding to the other became a more serious problem as you started writing larger progrAMS?

[TorikuTheTraveller]

Dancing Lego Robots!!