{"id":268,"date":"2009-09-06T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T06:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/?p=268"},"modified":"2009-09-06T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T06:06:09","slug":"getting-better-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/2009\/09\/06\/getting-better-all-the-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Better All The Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Getting<\/a><\/p>\n

21-13, the best score yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I tweaked the motion yet again.\u00c2\u00a0 I went back to continuous motion, for starters, since the angular was constantly starting and stopping over and over and over and over, slowing it down.\u00c2\u00a0 I think part of the main problem before was the message buffering.\u00c2\u00a0 The same thing that was happening with the LEFT LEFT LEFT stuff I talked about earlier was happening in continuous motion mode, too.\u00c2\u00a0 The solution here doesn’t have to be async, though, which is nice.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, all I have to do is not send the same message more than once in a row.\u00c2\u00a0 You can tell me LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT LEFT all you want, and I only tell the robot a single LEFT and I leave it at that.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s now hardly ever overshooting the mark, and when it does, it can usually recover with\u00c2\u00a0a quick nudge back in the right direction.<\/p>\n

\"In<\/a><\/p>\n

Also, with this game, the robot was briefly in the lead!<\/p>\n

So, now, why isn’t it winning?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s supposed to be a perfect robot, why is it still losing to a 30 year old processor?\u00c2\u00a0 Two big apparent reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s not moving fast enough.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 I need to alter it so that it will race from one side to the other when the projected point is far away.<\/li>\n
  2. It’s not going to the right place.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 The trajectory projection isn’t perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 It’ll sometimes miss the mark.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll need to go back and work on that a bit to improve the prediction.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Still, I’m very pleased with what’s come together in the last hour or so.\u00c2\u00a0 The day wasn’t going so well until then.\u00c2\u00a0 Right now, I’m at the point where I’d hoped to be by about 2 PM…\u00c2\u00a0 The problems today have all been little stupid ones that can only be fixed by experimentation.\u00c2\u00a0 There hasn’t been much problem solving, it’s all been iterative failure toward a higher goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    21-13, the best score yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I tweaked the motion yet again.\u00c2\u00a0 I went back to continuous motion, for starters, since the angular was constantly starting and stopping over and over and over and over, slowing it down.\u00c2\u00a0 I think part of the main problem before was the message buffering.\u00c2\u00a0 The same thing that was happening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[15,20,22,25,28,238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}