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From: larson@snmp.sri.com (Alan Larson)
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Subject: Re: Request for Feedback on Proposed Lunar Analog Robotics Contest
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  If you are going to require small size for the lunar robot contest,
and limit the power sources to lunar capable ones, allowing wire
connections or local visual observations is a bit imbalanced.
If you are talking about the 3 second delay from earth based teleoperation,
why aren't you including the difficulty of radio communications back
to earth.  A quick check will discover that the video transmitter will
suck a fair chunk of power over that range.

  It is probably more reasonable to simplify the requirements to only
test the robotics (and possibly the AI) part, as the communications
part could overwhelm the efforts of individuals or small groups.

	Alan