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Re: Position Finding/Mapping
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 2 Oct 1999 18:58:15 GMT
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Erik Walthinsen <omega@/spamless/cse.ogi.edu>
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On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Andy Gombos wrote:
> This would probably need LgOs or whatever because you would probably get
> floating point numbers for feet.
Take a lesson from NASA and never use feet for anything important. <g>
Using metric also means you don't need floating point, if you do things
right.
Erik Walthinsen <omega@cse.ogi.edu> - Staff Programmer @ OGI
Quasar project - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/quasar/
Video4Linux Two drivers and stuff - http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/v4l2/
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| Okay. Here is an update. I decided on a platform like the one on this page. Synchro Drive I have bought and finally recieved all the parts nessesary. It is going to use 2 rotation sensors to measure distance, and the angle of the wheels relative to (...) (25 years ago, 17-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| If you take a syncro drive robot that can move perfecly in 4 directions(Fwd,Rev,Left,Right) and attach rotation sensors to each axle that the wheels are on, then you can measure the distance traveled by ecah wheel. With a litttle knowledge of how (...) (25 years ago, 1-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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