Also, if they don't have our code, I don't think there's a way for them to fairly detect whether or not the sensors were used, I imagine it would be possible maybe for them to detect if a sensor was used perhaps by some trigger built in the functions of the sensors, but how they were used is what should be taken into account. Also, it's very much possible that particular implementations of the sensors make other sensors obsolete.
Quite personally, I didn't use either of the hazard cameras, the back one was most especially useless for me since my rover only did ever move backwards over an area it's already been, and as for the front, well, if there would be anything I would have used it for, maybe to help with the positioning of the rover before tapping the rocks, but I managed to achieve something rather precise with the navcam alone, so I didn't feel the need to complicate it (going through those images takes a good long number of loops, and my image processing algos aren't something I wanted looping too much). I also could have used the front hazard camera to avoid rocks I didn't want to run into, but I decided to just make use of formulas to create paths around waypoints that were neither my origin nor destination. I was very much satisfied with that because even if they mixed up the order of the way points, my rover would have avoided the ones it wasn't supposed to go to yet, and still manage to get the bonus 75.
Any thoughts on what they could possibly, fairly use as criteria to determine who's bots would be further evaluated via code inspection if not everyone's? All I could possibly think of is the need for a 725. I don't think running time nor use of all sensors should be criteria for it either. And I can't imagine, well maybe I could, them deciding based on the .plb's.
On a side note, anyone know how to use the plb's? Is there any way we could see the replay of our submission?
PS, I'm sorry if it seems as though I'm bragging on my second paragraph, I'm only trying to make my point with regards to the sensors and why I believe it isn't necessary to implement all of them. It really depends on how everything comes together.
Sometimes a group works best when every one works together, sometimes a group works best when the members who aren't very good step out of the way of the one who is.
