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Re: Drift Correction
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Date: 
Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:06:53 GMT
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dave madden wrote:
> Perhaps you can achieve greater accuracy by running the two axles
> through a differential driven backwards (with respect to the way it's
> usually operated) and take the difference signal off the body of the
> differential.  Gear that up so that a small difference in wheel
> rotation speeds turns into a large CW or CCW rotation on an axle, and
> run that axle into a single rotation sensor.  Then, use the sensor
> output to determine when to adjust motor speeds.  (I think this works
> in theory, but suspect that LEGO(r) gears are too sloppy to make this
> really practical.)

I used this approach once - and with success. The gears are a bit sloppy
and the rotation sensor only measures descrete angles. Anyway it worked
for me.

Jacob

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  Re: Drift Correction
 
=>From: Andy Gombos <gombos@ne.infi.net> =>... =>Does anyone know how to do drift correction? I have tried 4 different =>ways, but they all don't work. Is it a difference in wheel =>circumference? Or is it something with the programming? I drive (...) (27 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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