From 77a617a1089582eb45bf308073befc7bf6c0514b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Harrington Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 11:26:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update ZenCompetition.tex --- ZenCompetition.tex | 37 +++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) diff --git a/ZenCompetition.tex b/ZenCompetition.tex index 80a605a..38213db 100644 --- a/ZenCompetition.tex +++ b/ZenCompetition.tex @@ -37,23 +37,6 @@ This pentathlon is designed to foster a connection to these principles for each \pagebreak -{\huge \textbf{Justification of Decisions}} -\vspace{1cm} - -This competition was inspired as an act of schismogenesis in response to FIRST and Vex competitions. The competition structure, team-on-team competition and my-win-requires-your-loss aspects are the motivations for a change. There are elements that are desirable, such as team collaboration, across-team collaboration and high school engineering. - -Why Linux as the runtime? -\begin{enumerate} -\item We want to encourage full-scale compute hardware as the runtime for robot programs. - -\item We want to see tight integration of Control Code, Robot Kinematics, Robot CAD and Robot Simulation. - -\item We want to see fully open source designs that can be composites of many repositories, with runtime self-bootstrapping on new systems. - -\item We want to have students able to open up the robot in an Integrated Robotics Development Environment. - -\item We want to encourage a distributed architecture of compute and edge devices. - \end{enumerate} \pagebreak @@ -213,7 +196,25 @@ Each team in the competition must perform some portion of the obstacle course to \vspace{1cm} - + \pagebreak + {\huge \textbf{Appendix}} + \pagebreak + {\huge \textbf{Justification of Decisions}} +\vspace{1cm} + +This competition was inspired as an act of schismogenesis in response to FIRST and Vex competitions. The competition structure, team-on-team competition and my-win-requires-your-loss aspects are the motivations for a change. There are elements that are desirable, such as team collaboration, across-team collaboration and high school engineering. + +Why Linux as the runtime? +\begin{enumerate} +\item We want to encourage full-scale compute hardware as the runtime for robot programs. + +\item We want to see tight integration of Control Code, Robot Kinematics, Robot CAD and Robot Simulation. + +\item We want to see fully open source designs that can be composites of many repositories, with runtime self-bootstrapping on new systems. + +\item We want to have students able to open up the robot in an Integrated Robotics Development Environment. + +\item We want to encourage a distributed architecture of compute and edge devices. \end{document}