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| in article 398D9DA5.300D416C@airmail.net, Steve Baker at lego-robotics@crynwr.com wrote on 8/6/00 10:17 AM: (...) <regretfully snipped excellent discussion of using line following to find bar codes for landmark recognition> It would be nifty if you (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I thought of another possibility for robot coordinate recognition. It's rather unorthodox, however, and requires some special equipment and setup to make it work. Still, in the interest of creative discussion... Building off the base station idea (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Yes - that's where I started thinking. It seemed to me that if the circle was large enough, odometry would put you inside the circle - then driving out of the circle in any direction would get you to cross all the bar codes. Presuming you use (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Clever! ...Food for thought! The only snag I can see is that when the first laser is being acquired, both the tower and the robot have to spin. It might take a LOT of rotations for them both to happen to be pointing in the right direction for (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Thanks! (...) Not if you used an omnidirectional laser sensor. Picture, instead of only one face of paper, a paper cylinder. There would be a tube of paper mounted on top of a circular LEGO piece (or *pieces* arranged in a circle) with a paper (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) both (...) for (...) one (...) on (...) paper (...) Now (...) paper (...) Wherever (...) I find Ian's proposal about the laser tower very clever. The only bad point about using an omnidirectional laser sensor on the robot is it can't get any (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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