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RE: tracking robot position
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Fri, 12 Nov 1999 15:03:04 GMT
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Original-From:
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Issac Merkle <the_gaff@hotmail.com[saynotospam]>
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If you could somehow interface a serial mousing device with the RCX, then I
hold that Microsoft's new Intellimouse, with no moving parts and a tiny CMOS
camera eye, would be the way to go.
Regards,
Issac.
> From: "Carl Schaefer" <cgschaef@futurelinkinc.com>
> Reply-To: <cgschaef@futurelinkinc.com>
> To: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
> Subject: RE: tracking robot position
> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 14:22:45 GMT
>
> This is an interesting idea, but I think you will have a problem common to
> most dead-reckoning navigation solutions and that is that wheel slip, mouse
> ball slip, and the differential slip between the two (i.e., if the robot
> wheel slips, the mouse may not, and vice versa). It may not be a better
> solution, but why not try some type of optical or magnetic encoder?
>
> Carl
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com]On Behalf
> > Of Vlad Dumitrescu
> > Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 4:34 AM
> > To: lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com
> > Subject: tracking robot position
> >
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I had an idea last night, and I think something good might come
> > out of it, with
> > so many smart people around! *s*
> >
> > I need a way to track the position of my robot, and I realized
> > that attaching
> > the PC mouse to it might do the trick!
> >
> > Without hardware intervention, the only way is to have a cord
> > going to the PC
> > thus limiting the range and the elegance(!?) of the solution - maybe it • is
> > possible to just use the mouse sensors and wheels as "home-made" • rotation
> > sensors and plug them directly to the RCX?
> >
> > A disadvantage would be that 2 input ports will be used, but if
> > an extension
> > plate is used on the 3rd to enable 4 extra touch sensors, it
> > might not be such
> > a big problem after all...
> >
> > /Vlad
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