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Re: Antenna Bumpers/Insects
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:10:52 GMT
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Laurentino Martins <LMARTINS@antispamMARKTEST.PT>
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I think insects do much better than that.
Their antennas are VERY touch-sensitive and they know which point of the antenna was touched.
Better, the also move the antennas to "feel" the object and it's current position, size and maybe texture.
I think we are in no position to mimic their behavior with a RCX/CyberMaster... but it's a great challenge anyway! :-)
Laurentino Martins
At 12:57 04-12-1998 Friday , you wrote:
> I've just made a simple bot with the antenna-like config in the
> Constructopedia + implemented the simple touch>stop motor algorithm.
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> 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.
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> OK - I know plenty of ways to fix this, from a HW or SW point of view . . .
> that's not the question.
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> How do real insects with long antenna manage this problem? Can they walk
> backwards? I don't think so . . .
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> (We don't have many large roaches here in the UK that I can observe)
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> Cheers,
>
> Howard
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