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Edge Tracking SteerBot LUGNET Page
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:11:35 GMT
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I just put up a page with photos and NQC code of my SteerBot robot.
SteerBot is an edge tracking robot that steers like a car.
http://www.lugnet.com/~726/SteerBot
Some background:
Since getting my first Mindstorms kit a few years ago, I attempted several
times to build a line or edge tracking robot that steers like a car. Until
this January, all my attempts were either total failures or very slow and
unstable. The usual result was a robot that oscillated back and forth over
the line as soon as the robot started to move a little too fast. I was also
plagued by inaccuracy problems with the rotation sensor when I used that to
determine the current steering angle. SteerBot is, in many ways, a much
simpler design then anything I tried before and that is probably why it
works so much better.
Take a look and let me know what you think.
Gus Jansson
Issaquah, WA USA
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| Since my original posting I have added an animated GIF of the robot going around my test track. This animated GIF was made from a QuickTime .mov file. This was my first attempt at making animated GIFs. They are pretty cool but they do require a fair (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I am very impressed with that robot, the first time i saw the movie, month ago or so, I made the same "whoa" sound as the other people did in the clip. I'd never guessed a line following robot could move so fast, but I'm just a novice, I've only had (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) What's there to say? The pictures say it all, excellent pice of work! - Minimalistic design, (I like that). - Ingenious solution/construction. - Really good programming. I have try build one by looking at the pictures... //Harri Manni -"Do not (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I especially like the way you put the motor next to the differential, I wish I had had that idea when I encountered the same problem. While we're at it, I just saw that there is a racing competition for edge-tracking robots coming on in (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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