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Re: GPS for RCX
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:31:37 GMT
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Daniel A. Segel <DANIELS@NETCOMstopspam.COM>
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At 10:55 PM 01/10/2000 +0000, Vincent Cate wrote:
> Truth is I don't have time to work on this project, but it seems like
> such a fun project that maybe someone else would think it fun and run
> with it.
Without differential GPS the accuracy is low enough (usually no better than
+/- ~100 feet, sometimes far worse than that) that it would be almost
useless for a robot that wasn't in sight at all times anyway. I wouldn't
want an autonomous boat under GPS control for fear it would get lost.
Daniel
--
"Being humble is why I'm a great person."
Daniel A. Segel
daniels@netcom.com
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: GPS for RCX
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| (...) It seems they have differential GPS in lots of places now, like near airports and sea-ports. For indoor use you would need differential GPS. But for people who had that, it would make these robots really powerful. And for a guy like me who (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: GPS for RCX
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| (...) Ah, but I have thought up a slight fix to this problem. You are not really concered with "where" the robot is, just how it has moved relative to a fixed base position. ("home") This wouldn't work for a robot that you are sending _all_ that (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | GPS for RCX
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| The standard RCX firmware with its serial protocol could not talk to a GPS, but LegOS could. With LegOS and a GPS we could make robots that could tell where they were. This would be way cool. I want a solar powered toy robot boat with GPS that can (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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