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Antenna Bumpers/Insects
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:57:01 GMT
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Vaan, Howard <howard.vaan@csfp.co=SayNoToSpam=.uk>
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I've just made a simple bot with the antenna-like config in the
Constructopedia + implemented the simple touch>stop motor algorithm.
One problem the robot has is with table/chair legs and the like - the bot
wanders straight into it and then can't escape because the antennae make it
continually steer back into it.
OK - I know plenty of ways to fix this, from a HW or SW point of view . . .
that's not the question.
How do real insects with long antenna manage this problem? Can they walk
backwards? I don't think so . . .
(We don't have many large roaches here in the UK that I can observe)
Cheers,
Howard
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Antenna Bumpers/Insects
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| (...) They change the position of the antennae - those things usually have a joint at the base. How else would they wave them around menacingly? (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Antenna Bumpers/Insects
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| (...) Yes, I've seen just this behaviour. Work-around -- (i) use the purple corrugated pipes as antenna, with just a short axle in the end; and (ii) instead of mounting the two antennae on one pivot (so that they're fixed in relation to each other) (...) (26 years ago, 31-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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