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| | | (...) Yep! Also known as "the short range navigation problem". Everyone from DARPA to DoD to every would-be maker of a reliable automated lawn mowing system wants this. It is an amazingly hard problem which I graple with on a day to day basis as my (...) (20 years ago, 10-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: GPS Reality? —Steve Baker
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| | | | (...) Humans and most animals have evolved to solve this navigation problem. The result isn't 100% perfect (as anyone who ever got lost walking in the woods will tell you). They use their eyes and a continually updatable mental map. That's the ideal (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: GPS Reality? —Danny Staple
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| | | | | I think by setting many mini Darpa challenges, we can set the larger hobbyist community on it, and somebody is bound to come up with some crazy yet neat solution we havent yet. As I see it - even if nobody actually hit the goals, by awarding the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: GPS Reality? —Øyvind Steinnes
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| | | | "Steve Baker" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message news:4259F6E0.708040...ail.net... (...) where (...) I know of a group of students at the university in my town that have solved this GPS problem for a limited area. But it also have the (...) (20 years ago, 13-Apr-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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