Re: Problem with distance display in contest

Hello,

Why not summing the projection of the robot move vector along the robot z axis?
A robot running around the tatami would be greatly rewarded, thus allowing
other strategies than direct fight. 

something like
at each time increment :
            prev_X -= X; //absolute coordonates
            prev_Z -= Z;
            // distance_increment contributions on robot's z axis
            distance_increment=prev_X*sin(compass)+prev_Z*cos(compass);
            distance += distance_increment;
            prev_X = X;
            prev_Z = Z;

contest_distance=max(distance, radial_distance); //backward going robots wont
be too much penalized

side steps won't increase the distance and going backward will lower the
distance preventing forward/backward strategies.

-- 
Benoît Pothier (gollum) -+- [email protected]


* Olivier Michel <[email protected]> [040119 11:01]:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, David is right. I choose this maximum radial distance from the 
> start point to avoid annoying behaviors such as go forward 0.5 meters 
> and backwards 0.5 meter and repeat this as long as possible to gather a 
> maximum path length. The radial distance rule avoid such problems but it 
> doesn't reflect the miles counter of the robot which is not what we want.
> 
> -Olivier
> 
> David Weber wrote:
> 
> >hi mike
> >  
> >
> >>The distance displayed during the contest seems to be the maximum radial
> >>distance the robot has attained from its start point and not the total
> >>distance the robot has traveled.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >i think that's how it should be!
> >
> >greetz david

 

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