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Re: Advantage on motor change direction?
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Thu, 3 Mar 2005 00:20:36 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, Elizabeth Mabrey wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to understand if there is much advantage on using the "change
> direction" command, instead of using the usual "turn on motor " in the
> opposition direction command.
This command is useful when you don't already know what direction a motor is
going.
Consider the following contrived example: A Robot w/a single light sensor is
supposed to drive back and forth between two black lines. Additionally, this
robot is supposed to start in a random direction. Coding this using flip is
substantially tighter than using "Motor A forward".
This topic actually brings up problem I keep running into. Is there any way to
programatically detect which direction a motor is set to turn?
Thanks,
Tom
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| In lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab, Thomas Johnson wrote: <snip> (...) Um, you can't programmatically detect *in advance* which direction the motor is *set to turn* because that's determined by hardware, namely, by the orientation of the electric cable (...) (20 years ago, 7-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab)
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