Robocoach Communications

[FRC200641]

Can the robocoach transmitter transmit the 4 instructions using more than 4 pulses? For example, to prevent interference to our robot, can we program it to recognize 4 different SETS of pulses as opposed to 4 different pulses? In this case, there are only 4 commands, but they come encoded to prevent our robot from responding to another signal.

[FRC585]

Using the IR sensor, are we allowed to encode patterns to define starting positions of the robot and the track balls?

For example: Robot starts in position 1, ball starts in position 3 and the second ball starts in position 2. The IR sends pattern "1","2","3". This tells the robot position of the balls and itself. One of the functions determines the robot starting position, another defines one ball location, and the 3rd defines the remaining ball location.

[GDC]

Please refer to Team Update #3. The signal/message must be generated by utilizing a single input (i.e. one signal/message is transmitted when one button is pressed). So transmitting more than four signals to implement the four commands would not be allowed. Using the position of the signal in the sequence of messages would effectively become sequence-determined encoding. This would be a form of encoding larger message sets, which is prohibited under Rule <R65>.