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Re: Inertial guidance
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Date: 
Sat, 12 Jan 2002 17:49:41 GMT
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Steve Baker wrote:

You also generally need six sensors in order to measure the accellerations
in all six degrees of freedom -  that's not gonna be nice for an RCX!


Actually, i think you could use TWO rotation sensors because the
rotation sensors work in both directions, and Lego generally doesnt go
up and down (but it might if you had some sort of maze with ramps).



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  Re: Inertial guidance
 
(...) By "Six degrees of freedom" I mean: 1) Translation to Left/Right 2) Translation Forwards/Backwards 3) Translation Up/Down 4) Rotation left/right 5) Rotation fore/aft 6) Roll left/right. These are often called (respectively) by the names: Sway, (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) The term "inertial guidance" refers to a navigational technique that involves carefully measuring the rotational and translational accelleration of the vehicle, then integrating that to derive the velocity and integrating *that* to get the (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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