[ILUG] Lander1 contest

[Kae Verens]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 10:38:15AM -0500, Mernagh_Will at emc.com wrote:
> How about we set up a team and submit one program betwen the group. Any
> prize goes to linux.ie. We could post the code up on the site as it is being
> developed and we could all have comments and additions to make.

makes sense to me.

initial thoughts:
I was thinking of writing a neural net to work out how to do this intuitively, then realised I haven't a clue how to write one in plain C - a nightmare, I suppose...

the best way may be to break the problem into three parts - rising to the required "hovering" height, staying at that height, then falling safely. Each part can then be solved mathematically using calculus, then the solutions can be coded into the program.

thoughts, anyone? or maybe this should be posted to a different mailing list?

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