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Article #1865Re: Tracked mobile robot dead-reckoning
From: John Nagle
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:46
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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Newsgroups: comp.robotics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!nagle From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle) Subject: Re: Tracked mobile robot dead-reckoning Message-ID: <1993Jan25.184635.11631@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1k187mINN705@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:46:35 GMT Lines: 11