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    <p>Well, Karim, now that you mention it...</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/31/21 5:26 PM, Karim Virani via
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      <div dir="ltr">I agree with Doug, you should never have blocking
        code unless you can dedicate a separate thread to it apart from
        your main loop's thread.<br>
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        And not to start up the whole debate again, I personally vote
        that there is no use for ballistic behaviors. I treat them as an
        academic construct. There are plenty of uses of
        objective-oriented and terminating behaviors - including those
        where the objective is to last for a certain amount of time. But
        they should still be interruptible and cancellable by higher
        priority behaviors. <br>
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    <p>I believe this is a misunderstanding of what ballistic behaviors
      are in the context of subsumption.   For some reason the idea has
      taken root that what makes a behavior ballistic is that it for
      some reason cannot be interrupted.    That is a red herring.  
      What make a behavior a ballistic behavior <b><i><u>in the context
            of subsumption</u></i></b> is that it continues to execute
      after the signal that triggered it has ceased.  <br>
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    <p>That's all.    <tt><br>
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    <p>I don't understand why such a simple concept has turned out to be
      so hard to communicate.  I consider this a major failing on my
      part.<br>
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    <p>cheers!</p>
    <p>David</p>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 5:08
          PM Doug Paradis via DPRGlist <<a
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          <div dir="auto">Kumar,
            <div>    I always pass through the loop. So a 1 sec
              backwards maneuver would use a loop counter with a
              disengage value of 50 for a loop time of 20 mS. I am not
              using a multitasking framework, which opens up other
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            <div>Regards </div>
            <div>Doug P.<br>
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              <div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div>
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                <blockquote type="cite">On Oct 31, 2021, at 4:54 PM,
                  Thalanayar Muthukumar via DPRGlist <<a
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                    <div dir="ltr">20 times per sec</div>
                    <div dir="ltr">- default behavior - go straight
                      forward, green headlights</div>
                    <div dir="ltr">- higher priority behavior - light
                      sensed, turn left, red headlights</div>
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                    <div dir="ltr">My understanding of BBR is that there
                      should be no state maintained.</div>
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                    <div dir="ltr">Question - If we trigger a ballistic
                      behavior (e.g. go straight backward for one sec),
                      is it ok to not return to the loop every 50 msec?</div>
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                    <div dir="ltr">Or is it preferable to maintain state
                      and count 20 times for getting duration of 1 sec?</div>
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                    <div dir="ltr">Regards.</div>
                    <div dir="ltr">- Kumar<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div>
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