> > They're at
> > http://cityhall.netscope.net/mowbot/
> For those who haven't looked (or can't?), Monta's outline is:
Wasn't sure about e-mail verses web...
I can't easily convert the spreadsheet though;
and it's been added.
It suggests to me that speed of the final platform is
more important than I originally thought.
Thanks Robin for starting the 'back of the evelope'
calculations. A version of which I put on the web page.
This 'website' was only meant to tempory 'til the stuff
could be moved to the 'real mowbot webpage' if
anyone wanted it.
> But I maintain that the goal definition is the most important at this
> stage (though perhaps because it is harder than addressing engineering
> problems it seems to have been rather neglected so far).
Goals are most important now.
My 'list' consists of proposed consecutive goals...
or maybe an impelementation methodology.
A way of subdiving "mowbot" into some definiable subgoals.
Many assumptions have been made, which need to be
reviewed, questioned, debated.
But it is a very concrete 'task list'.
I want to try to avoid the tendancy to spend
the next two years debating robot philosophy
and instead get a prototype that does _something_
even if its ugly.
> I wonder if Monta saw the earlier post(s) proposing the split:
> control, movement, sensors, effectors, power, chassis
> These are broader and more all-inclusive categories, which will need to
> be expanded at a lower level with elements such as those in Monta's list.
I can post those as well, as they are expanded and 'weeded' :)
for applicability.
-Monta Elkins
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