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Parallel Construction Using Graphical Invariants
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task/7-investigate-ARGoS-magnetic-block-usage #7

Open jharwell opened 4 years ago

jharwell commented 4 years ago

It is possible to use magnetic blocks in ARGoS (as in they are supported by the simulator). The precise dynamics of how to drop blocks on top of other blocks in order to ensure that they will stick together needs to be investigated. Ideally, I would incorporate this into the building process, so that while robots might not use actual physics when picking up blocks (for now), when the drop them, the block which they are carrying (which is currently out of sight in the simulation) will materialize over the drop zone in front of the robot and fall into place, providing some level of realism.

jharwell commented 4 years ago

This probably won't happen because magnetic blocks use the dynamics3d engine, which does not have a foot-bot model, and I don't really want to make one.