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1. (20pts) As part of a mission to send a robot to Mars you have been assigned to evaluate the landing plans for the mission. In preparation for this, develop a list of needs and wants for the landing.
Be sure to rate your needs and wants comparatively on a 1-10 scale.
Also be sure to detail why you made the decisions you did.
2. (30pts) Now that your robot has landed on Mars you are responsible for coming up with a set of instructions that will enable it to explore a square area 100 feet long on each side on Mars’s surface.
The robot must be programed ahead of time with a set of instructions that will enable it to navigate whatever terrain it finds itself in upon landing to find any interesting samples it can once it lands. Samples will be less than 1 square meter large. Impassable objects on the surface may be of any size.
The robot can do the following things:
· go forward (one foot at a time)
· go backwards (one foot at a time)
· turn left (ex. from
to
)
· turn right (ex. from to
)
· detect if it has collided with an impassible object
· detect if it's in the same space as an object of interest
· pick up and store object of interest
· remember specific things ("remember all the places you have been" is too broad. "remember you moved forward 2 feet" or "remember the number 42" are specific things)
Come up with a set of instructions for your (1sq foot large) robot to follow so that it can find as many interesting objects as possible in whatever terrain it lands in on Mars.
For example the terrain might look like this:
key: impassible object
object of interest
Your instructions should be as flexible as possible to be adaptable to whatever the terrain is upon landing.
In the early 20th century, archeologists had collected a large quantity of inscriptions in an ancient Anatolian language called Luvian. Many of the words in the inscriptions were names of regions, cities or kings. Some of the important names were the following: Regions: Khamatu, Palaa. Cities: Kurkuma, Tuvarnava. Kings: Varpalava, Tarkumuva.
3a. (15pts) The following are the inscriptions that correspond to these names. Your job is to match each inscription with the name that it represents. The process to solve this puzzle is very similar to what archeological linguists do when they discover writings and inscriptions in unknown languages.
3b. (15pts) Now, use what you have just learned to determine what the Luvian inscription would probably be for each of the following names:
The king Parta:
The king Armura:
The region Tarmu:
The region Tuva:
The region Narva:
