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RE: Positioning
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:50:54 GMT
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> The typical legobot, OTOH, is closer to an explorer in the Antarctic - he can
> see
> only 5 feet ahead, and can't quite walk a straight line. Give him a rope strung
> between landmarks, and he can walk it, or make the landmarks bright lights that
> he can see through the snow and he can track on it. But without a visible goal
> and reliable dead reckoning, he gets lost, wandering in a big circle, until
> he finds an abandoned house and ends up in the basement, standing in the
> corner.....
And all we get is the footage from the little CCD camera it was carrying....
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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| (...) My point is more basic - you can find those traffic lights because you are using additional info - that they are all located along the 'grid' of roads, and that if you veer left, you correct when you reach the edge of the pavement (or gravel, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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