We’re seeing definite improvements now.
Disappointingly enough, we still have parsing bugs, left behind by Bryan and Eric after they headed off home a couple of hours ago,;1 but even though we’re still using the “Damn the Torpedos” algorithm, our little guy is running a lot more smoothly than he used to. A big help (and very important for later on) is that we now properly generate commands to move from the current state to the desired of acceleration, turning, and so on, and we’ve also tweaked the turning algorithms to turn at different speeds depending on just how far out we are from the desired heading.
The algorithm code has now been refactored quite a bit from the original stuff Chris and Leon did this2 afternoon. I’m much more hopeful now that it shouldn’t be too hard for Ike and Paul to look at it and start to figure out how they might incorporate their ideas. I’m still worried about that, though; I wonder if they’ve come up with something so different in conception from what we’ve done that we end up needing to do something silly like major rewriting of our control systems.
But at least now we have a lot of trivia out of the way, and are attacking the real problem.
Anyway, not a bad day. Total production:
Total consumption: