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Subject: 
Re: Steering Drive
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 25 Aug 2004 04:41:41 GMT
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Mr S <szinn_the1@yahoo.comSTOPSPAMMERS>
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--- Jon Gilchrist <robots@DEELEETEf3p.com> wrote:
[snip]
So my problem is, how do I tell which way I need to
turn the motor to
get the wheels back to straight?

If the sensor is touched, I know that it is going
straight, but if the
sensor is not touched I can't figure out any good
way to tell which
side of the switch the cam is on.  At least, not
without using another
sensor port, which I don't have available.  I can't
double up on the
light sensor, because I can't have the sensor value
go to 100 just
because I'm going straight.

It also just occured to me that if you want to avoid
multiplexing with external parts, the line sensor can
be doubled up with a touch sensor. If the bumper
switch is doubled up on the line sensor, it makes
sense. When the bumper switch is engaged, line
following becomes a mute point at that moment, so a
light reading would be extraneous while you are trying
to stop hitting a wall. As long as the bumper switch
is not engaged, the light sensor would read as normal.
By using range testing on the light sensor, the bumper
sense would indeed be very different light reading
value.

Anyway, its a thought



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  Steering Drive
 
So I'm building this robot because my FLL kids told me it couldn't be done. It has to do a few things, line following, bumpers, nothing too special. I made it with a steering drive because it has to have wheels that turn to make it look right (I'll (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)

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