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Re: RotationNavigator accuracy
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.java
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Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:57:25 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, Michael Wisse wrote:
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My robot is a tank with treads and moving without turning works well,
travel() moves the correct distance.
Turning with rotate() or gotoAngle() is problematic. It seems, that
accuracy depends on motorpower. If I set power to 6, the robot turns
only half the angle. If I do not set motor power and the navigator
class runs with default values for power, accuracy is better, but still
poor. How can this be, if it calculates with rotation sensor values,
wich do not depend on motor power?
Perhaps it is a problem, that a tank with treads behaves different from
a robot with wheels, especially in performing turns with his treads?
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I guess it’s more hardware related problem
turning with tank-style robot is ALWAYS a trouble because tank doesn’t have
defined centre of rotation. If you imagine the simple robot - two wheels and a
castor - there is rotation center well defined and it lies between points, where
wheels touch the ground. When you use the tank, it touches ground with its
treads on many spots and therefore is hard to estimate where the rotation point
is. Diferent conditions on each side (e.g.friction) also makes it inaccurate.
Unfortunatelly i cannot point you to any good site related to you problem as all
pages i know are written in Czech and that wouldn’t help you.
Try to build simple castor arrangment as you can see here:
http://robotika.cz/articles/umor/challenge1/difdrive.png
and test your program on it
robert
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| Hi, I just try the rotation navigator class and have some problems with turning accuracy. My robot is a tank with treads and moving without turning works well, travel() moves the correct distance. Turning with rotate() or gotoAngle() is problematic. (...) (21 years ago, 13-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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