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    ANN: Article on dead-reckoning with a Mindstorms robot —Gary Lucas
   I thought that those of you who are interested in using the Lego rotation sensors for dead-reckoning and navigation might find the following useful. This month's issue of the Seattle Robotics Society's "Encoder" includes an article I wrote about my (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
   
        Re: Article on dead-reckoning with a Mindstorms robot —Aaron Nabil
      Loved your article, reminds me of the great stuff the Boulette Robotics club does. I was curious why you used differential steering instead of an adder/subtractor or synchro drive, were there some rule limitations on parts you could use? "G.W. (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
    
         Re: Article on dead-reckoning with a Mindstorms robot —Gary Lucas
     (...) Thanks for the kind words. The Connecticut Robotics Society (CRS) dead-reckoning contest has no special rules limiting the parts or technology used for the robot, except that it not rely on any kind of external navigation aids (such as (...) (23 years ago, 30-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
   
        Re: ANN: Article on dead-reckoning with a Mindstorms robot —Jerry Kalpin
   (...) Gary, I enjoyed reading about the project. I liked the article with all of the links to interesting backup material. The results are ...impressive! I have two questions: The subject model does not have a long fore & aft axis. Staying in the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
   
        Re: ANN: Article on dead-reckoning with a Mindstorms robot —Gary Lucas
   (...) Jerry, Thanks. I'm glad you liked the article. When I wrote it, I was hoping that other robotics enthusiasts would be able to adapt some of my techniques to their own dead-reckoning problems. It's good to see folks taking an interest in the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
 

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