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Re: Positioning
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:50:23 GMT
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Marco C. <marco@soporcel&StopSpammers&.pt>
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At 23:13 27-01-2000 GMT, Ian Warfield wrote:
In lugnet.robotics, "Marco C." <marco@soporcel.pt> writes:
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.

Nothing I hadn't thought of myself, after sending that msg :D

er... is there any human-eye-invisible IR-Ink ? :>   ...so I sould have my
flood painted with an invisible grid, all over the place, without the
knowledge of my wife :>

PS: Read my next post about a lego brick made line, ehehe !
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Marco C. aka McViper



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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 (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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