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Subject: 
RE: Antenna Bumpers/Insects
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:48:33 GMT
Original-From: 
Vaan, Howard <HOWARD.VAAN@nospamCSFP.CO.UK>
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This means the insect doesn't get into those situations, rather than making
it able to get out of them . . .?

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Hardie [SMTP:pete.hardie@dvsg.sciatl.com]
Sent: Friday, December 04, 1998 1:42 PM
To: 'lego-robotics@crynwr.com'
Subject: Re: Antenna Bumpers/Insects

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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