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Re: Navigation using landmarks (Was: Re: lasers and RCX)
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:09:04 GMT
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I see all this nice stuff about trimming mouse bottoms and mounting the
device off of the central steering axis and stuff to try and catch rotation,
but I haven't spotted the posting about how people are actually getting the
x and y values from the chip into their RCX code.
What did I miss?
JB
In lugnet.robotics, sjbaker1@airmail.net writes:
> Mike Payson wrote:
> > Just use the bottom half of the mouse, trimmed as much as possible, as a
> > skid plate. It will need to be mounted to allow vertical movement, but
> > it should work alright. This wouldn't solve the spin issue, but the
> > clearance shouldn't be a problem. A nice side benefit is that this
> > simplifies construction since you don't need to worry about mounting the
> > optics, etc..
>
> Yes - I was thinking of some kind of spring-loaded arm pressing the mouse's
> underside against the ground.
>
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| (...) Yes - I was thinking of some kind of spring-loaded arm pressing the mouse's underside against the ground. (...) For a Killough platform, you have a fundamental problem. That type of drive has three degrees of freedom (well - it *ought* to have (...) (22 years ago, 9-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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