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RE: A robot who knows his position (fwd)
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:20:42 GMT
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Luis Villa <liv@duke.NOSPAMedu>
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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Tilman Sporkert wrote:
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> I'm planning to use colors, too, for a "follow the line" vehicle that I'm
> building. I don't like the simple black line that is commonly used. If you
> loose it, you don't necessarily know which way to go, and you have no clue
> how far you are off the line. My current plan is to use a strip that is
> black on one edge, and white on the other edge, with a nice gradient fill in
> between. I'll make various pieces of these strips (straight, sharp curves,
> light curves etc.) with my computer and printer. The brightness reading
> directly translates into steering input. The darker it gets, the more you
> steer to the right. The brighter it gets, the more you steer to the left.
> At a reading of 50, go straight.
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> There will be some intersting experiments. If you turn off the lights in the
> room, will the vehicle move a little more to the right?
>
> The next phase will be to embedd barcodes into the strip, to tell the
> vehicle about its location along its course.
Wow- sounds really interesting. Keep us all up to date...
Luis
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