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(...) Sorry, I do other things with my controllers than control robots (shame on me!). From other discussions I've seen though, I would think that you could use some feedback from the turning shafts, like optical turns counters or some such. I (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Sean ... Probably the best way to maintain a constant heading is to use shaft encoders on both drive wheels ... monitor their rotation ... adjust one motor to give identical turn counts. The book "Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation" by (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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A week ago I has using the sonar ranger with the expansion board but without connecting J12 to digital input 7. I had the sonar making the CLICKING sound (which is good) but the numbers that were being displayed onto the LCD were random (not good). (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Hi Ryan, The Robot Learning Lab at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute has used Quickcams for vision applications. The URL is (URL) not sure how much info is available. But I know it can be done. Michael (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Is there anyone who has written or seen IC code that will keep a robot moving straight with 2 DC motors and four side sensors? 2 on each side. The main reason I ask is because one of my DC motors seems to put out more power that the other one and (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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