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Re: Edge Tracking SteerBot LUGNET Page
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:00:49 GMT
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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 my RCX since january.
Tom Heverly
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 01:11:35 GMT, "Gustav Jansson" <GJansson@aol.com>
wrote:
> 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.
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> http://www.lugnet.com/~726/SteerBot
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> 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.
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> Take a look and let me know what you think.
>
> Gus Jansson
> Issaquah, WA USA
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