Subject:
|
Re: GPS for RCX
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:47:43 GMT
|
Original-From:
|
Richard Markham <richard@markham.demon.%StopSpammers%co.uk>
|
Viewed:
|
2517 times
|
| |
|
|
In message <Fo5Do0.7py@lugnet.com>, Vincent Cate <vince@cate.com> writes
> In lugnet.robotics, "Daniel A. Segel" <daniels@netcom.com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> 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.
Differential GPS signals are available everywhere in the UK on FM RDS.
(ClassicFM i think).
>
> And for a guy like me who lives on a tropical island, +/-100 feet is
> plenty accurate enough for a solar powered robot boat to make it back to a
> mile long beach.
>
> Vince Cate
> http://cate.com/vince/
--
Richard Markham
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: GPS for RCX
|
| (...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
|
6 Messages in This Thread:
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
