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Re: Positioning
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:29:49 GMT
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Marco C. <marco@soporcel.pt&StopSpammers&>
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At 08:54 27-01-2000 GMT, David Leeper wrote:
> Again, I think the major flaw in all mapping systems that I've seen is
> the "GO" command. Moving a robot is not acurate and the programmer has to • come
> up with ways to deal with the inacuracy, whether its a timer system, a
> rotation system, or landmark system.
That's one of the reasons why a programmer goes to all the trouble (and
fun?) of building a physical model of a bot instead of dealing with
over-acurate 3D CG simulations.
Ok, now for the Positioning system debate. Just one word: *Ants*
They're blind. The advantage they have is chemical sensors (smell).
I think they use a mix of "(chemical) line" following and landmark system
(or line node recognition)
My robotic vision project will, hopefully, evolve to something that can be
used as a landmark/graphic pattern recogniser to be used in the bot
positioning area.
:)
PS: MyProjectsUpdate:
My Robotic Vision project (using http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/psksvp dll's)
and my Sanscript & Spirit.OCX project (http://www.trulyvisual.com) have all
stalled temporarily. I was expecting this already, 'cause this time of the
year my workload doubles, so no spare time :(
..best guess is March, to continue with both projects.
____________________
Marco C. aka McViper
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| Hi Marco, Building the robot is definitly fun. But I was really suprised when I built two robots from the same design, ran the same "GO" program in them and they moved differently! 8^o I'm glad to find another ant lover here! I try to check all my (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Positioning
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| (...) Ooh ooh - idea! (Piggybacked, of course.) Somebody make an ant robot with a black paintbrush (1) on its back. Wherever the robot goes, it paints a line behind it that it can follow later. Anyone designing a control system could save a lot of (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Some questions I have - what are you using for 'landmark'? How far away can the legobot detect a landmark? When giving directions including a landmark, what are the steps leading up to "...when you get to the X..."? And how does a bot (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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