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Re: Tracked mobile robot dead-reckoning

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From: John Nagle
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:46
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feng@srvr1 (Liqiang Feng, ) writes:

>I am working on the navigation problem for a tracked vehicle. 
  
      You need a heading reference.  A magnetic compass (flux-gate, 
presumably) or a heading gyro should do it.  You can often keep track
of distance travelled by dead-reckoning, but small errors in heading
have large effects after you've travelled any distance, so you need a
heading reference.

      					John Nagle
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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Tracked mobile robot dead-reckoning
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