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Re: Following the Line Follower
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:01:20 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Soh Chio Siong writes:
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> For the single light sensor bot: turn right when it sees bright; turn
> left when it sees dark.
You can improve the single sensor program considerably by having it go
straight when it sees an intermediate value, which is what it would see when
it's right on the edge. So, you have two cutoffs, LOW and HIGH. If light
value is less than LOW, turn one motor off, if it's above HIGH, turn the
other motor off. This allows the robot to go quite a bit faster.
I'm sure you can do even better with two sensors.
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| It might be worth trying to increase the area that the light sensor is seeing by putting some kind of a lens in front of it. If the sensor could see (say) a roughly circular region 3 centimeters across then numbers you'd read between the 'white' and (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Thanks. I couldn't have done it without those ubiquitous felt pens. (...) The bots used fairly standard programs (written in ROBOLAB). For the single light sensor bot: turn right when it sees bright; turn left when it sees dark. For the bot (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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