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Re: Dead reckoning (was Re: Rover Programming)
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Date: 
Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:41:34 GMT
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It's killing me. My first rotation sensor robots were inaccurate, so I
started again with a new design with the rotation sensors on idler
wheels rather than on the driven wheels. That was more inaccurate. So
I've gone back to having the rotation sensors geared off the driven
wheels, and I've at last achieved a robot which can (on a polished
wooden floor) walk a one metre square and return to within 10cm of it's
starting position. Wow! Achievement! However, like my first attempts,
it turns more than the calculated amount on polished floors (presumably
the inertia of the turn causes slip) and less than the calculated
amount on carpet (presumably because of drag).

So I'm now looking at software solutions that reduce inertia - i.e.
gradually ramping up and down speed in turns. We'll see how this goes.

I'm currently using the 8.5 centimetre wheels on my dead reckoning bot.
Has anyone tried building a dead reckoning bot with tracks? How did it
perform?

If you haven't already, check out

http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200108/using_a_pid.html

He was able to get quite precise dead-reckoning w/ a Lego bot by programming a
PID-type controller.

- Gareth



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  Re: Dead reckoning (was Re: Rover Programming)
 
(...) WOW! That's impressive - but I can't help but get the impression that it's heavily optimised to going around that particular track. Getting that good positioning on the straight sections is impressive - but I wonder how it would have fared in (...) (22 years ago, 28-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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  Dead reckoning (was Re: Rover Programming)
 
(...) A systematic search pattern is one solution. Not being too anal about it is another - random walking the domain will eventually explore the whole of it, although increasingly inefficiently as time goes on. (...) It's killing me. My first (...) (22 years ago, 27-Jun-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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