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Re: Positioning
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 27 Jan 2000 23:13:18 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, "Marco C." <marco@soporcel.pt> writes:
> 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)
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 processing time because the mapmaking would be done in realtime,
not in RCX or computer-as-host-station memory.
-- Ian
1. Or, if you happen to have a girlfriend (ducks rotten tomatos, rubber boots,
and a kitchen sink) you can mount a tape dispenser for laying black tape.
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 | | Re: Positioning (sort of off-topic)
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| In lugnet.robotics, Ian Warfield writes: [...] (...) My 2am-brain free-associated this with the (classic?) "Langston's Ant" simulation. See: (URL) behavior is Very Cool Indeed. - Mike (25 years ago, 28-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Positioning
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| (...) come (...) 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: (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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