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Re: Racing Line Follower
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 2 Apr 2001 23:45:24 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@&NoSpam&airmail.net>
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Magnus Fasting wrote:

I've built a line follower which is quite fast (approx 4 secs per lap on
the testpad).

I've built a few line followers to see how fast I can do the test track -
but I've concluded that you have a quality/speed tradeoff.  I've built
robots that *approximately* follow the track at these kinds of speeds - but
without some kind of quality metric it's not a very meaningful measure of
robotic prowess.

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Hello I've built a line follower which is quite fast (approx 4 secs per lap on the testpad). It consists of two motors, each powering a 2/3 geared large wheel. Two light sensors are attached to the front pivot wheel. The distance between the sensors (...) (24 years ago, 2-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)

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