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Subject: 
Re: Antenna Bumpers/Insects
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:42:07 GMT
Original-From: 
Pete Hardie <pete.hardie@dvsg.sciatl.comIHATESPAM>
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Vaan, Howard wrote:

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 . . .

They change the position of the antennae - those things usually have a
joint
at the base.

How else would they wave them around menacingly?

--
Pete Hardie                   |   Goalie, DVSG Dart Team
Scientific Atlanta            |
Digital Video Services Group  |



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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 (...) (26 years ago, 4-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)

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