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Re: Using the Differential to drive straight.
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:47:42 GMT
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Russell Nelson <NELSON@CRYNWRantispam.COM>
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David Chen writes:
> I've been playing with the following design to try to overcome the
> problems with getting the robot to drive straight while using an A B
> Differential drive train (ie left side wheels driven by motor A, right
> side by motor B) and to get consistent turning.
This is described in Mario and Giulio Ferrari's excellent "Building
Robots with Lego Mindstorms".
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 | | Re: Using the Differential to drive straight.
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| I don't have this book yet. Can it be done with parts ONLY from the RIS set? --Jack Gregory Russell Nelson <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:15423.9463.8629...nwr.com... (...) people (...) following (...) them (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Using the Differential to drive straight.
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| I tried both of the drive trains in the Ferrari's book and still had problems getting the robot to to travel a straight line. The design they suggest was a huge improvement over a non-feedback direct differential drive, still I need precision for a (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Using the Differential to drive straight.
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| (...) Actuially the solution that we describe in our book is similar but not identical to Dave's one. Starting from the well known setup in which a differential gear is used to measure the difference in speed between the main wheels of a (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Using the Differential to drive straight.
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| I've been playing with the following design to try to overcome the problems with getting the robot to drive straight while using an A B Differential drive train (ie left side wheels driven by motor A, right side by motor B) and to get consistent (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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