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Scenario
John is a Ph.D. student in a robotics lab at the University of Michigan. Last year he was on-track to finish his thesis in two years, but this year he feels like he's still got two years left. John's project involves cooperative maneuvers on autonomous quadrocopters and he's hoping to show that his systems can build complex structures autonomously. He implemented his communication system via LCM channels on a wireless network and so far has been relatively happy with it.
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One of John's collaborators, Craig "the theory guy" Stevenson, is in town, so John fires up his base-station computer to run a short demo. He was up late last night getting the code ready, and managed to get his new cooperative block-lifting algorithm to work. As the computer comes up, John hooks in the quads' batteries and confirms their normal startup beeps and bloops.
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