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Re: Bump switches and "aggression"
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 4 Dec 2003 04:22:24 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.(StopSpam)net>
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Jim Choate wrote:
> There's the fundamental difference there is -no- reason to have
> directional bump sensors. If you are moving along a path and a bump sensor was
> hit that is all you need to know to change your path. You don't need to
> know in which direction. An Ameoba would be a good example.
That's nonsense!
You are working on the very naive assumption that nothing in the environment
is moving except your robot.
If your strategy is to reverse direction when the robot bumps into something
in *any* direction - then things will go horribly wrong the first time another
moving object bumps into the back of it while it's driving forwards.
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