Monday, July 16, 2007

After 3 years... Here we go !

Yep, it's hard to admit but... SONIA team has been unable to drop a single marker inside the bin for the last 3 years:

2004: the solenoids got stuck after water infiltration. The logs indicated that the software sent the command to drop but nothing happened on the solenoids...

2005: same kind of problem...

2006: a boolean variable was supposed to allow the submarine to drop after x confirmed reading of a centered bin. But, the timer was never registered... The submarine was able to follow the pipelines, to find the bin, to center on it but the command to drop was never sent...

2007: After 3 years, we finally dropped 2 markers in the bin during the qualif run ! I just can't believe it's finally happening :)

BUT, you know how ironic life is... During the final run, the sub found the bin, centered on it, was about to drop... and the PC suddently shut down. Well... it seems that we can't drop... It's written in the sky :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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