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5 years ago Original comment by Alfredo Bencomo (Bitbucket: bencomo).
Hi, Derek, at al.:
UGVs typically have a longer battery life than UAVs. Therefore, we are looking in extending the battery life for the UGVs (i.e. X1 and X2) from 20 mins to 90 mins; which will give teams more flexibility.
Please let me know your comments or thoughts.
Thank you in advance!
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5 years ago Original comment by Derek Knowles (Bitbucket: dknowles-ssci).
That would be great!
Viktor, said on the SubT Forum that we will have 60 minutes of in-simulation time, so at least for the tunnel circuit, anything over 60 minutes would be the same for us.
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5 years ago Original comment by GoRobotGo (Bitbucket: GoRobotGo).
This seems like a good change to better match the actual vehicles. But, I and possibly others chose to focus development on x3/x4 based on the earlier cost/benefit trade-offs. So, a late change to significantly improve ground vehicles effectively penalizes those that focused on x3/x4. Maybe make this change in late August?
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5 years ago Original comment by Derek Knowles (Bitbucket: dknowles-ssci).
Looks like the documentation hasn't been updated yet to reflect this change
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5 years ago Original comment by Alfredo Bencomo (Bitbucket: bencomo).
Thanks Derek for pointing that out. I just updated it. Cheers!
https://osrf-migration.github.io/subt-gh-pages/#!/osrf/subt/wiki/tutorials/batterymodel
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5 years ago
Original report (archived issue) by Derek Knowles (Bitbucket: dknowles-ssci).
The current battery model means that the endurance is the same for all vehicles.
To allow the chance for a more extensive survey with ground vehicles and conform to the real world fact that most ground vehicles have a much longer battery life than air vehicles, could the battery life for the X1 & X2 be extended?