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    monitoring motor revolutions —Kris Zabriskie
   I am currently working on a program that will monitor where a RCX goes. I am trying to establish a coordinate system so if it finds a light it can tell the location of the light. I was thinking about monitoring motor revolutions, but then I am (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
   
        Re: monitoring motor revolutions —Lester Witter
     (...) The type of navigation you seem to be talking about is called "dead reconning" by aviators. This method requires accurate distance, speed and direction mesurments. Counting motor revolutions does not even tell distance if the surface has (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
   
        Re: monitoring motor revolutions —Bernd Frassek
     (...) Hi Kris, In addition to Lester's comment here some ideas and statements regarding your project. As Lester stated, you will need accurate distance, speed and direction measurements - and that is so true. Furthermore, for calculating coordinates (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
   
        Re: monitoring motor revolutions —Carsten Müller
   Kris wrote (...) As stated by Lester and Bernd, navigation in a 'real' world environment is somewhat complicate. Due to limitations in accuracy, it is nearly impossible to perform the 3 basic tasks mentioned by Bernd. (...) First i thought, that it (...) (24 years ago, 11-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
 

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