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Article #215Re: Questions about Tracked Robot Vehicles
From: Greg Kemp
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 14:49
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 14:49
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In article <1992Apr9.131650.7721@sctc.com> smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith) writes: > feng@srvr1 (Liqiang Feng, ) writes: > >In other words, is dead reckoning still a feasible option for > >navigation? ^^^^^^ > > I didn't think dead reckoning had _ever_ been a feasible option for > navigation. I had the impression that even oceangoing vehicles only > used it as a method for choosing which continent they arrived at. > > Rick. > smith@sctc.com arden hills, minnesota Some early ballistic missiles (robotic aircraft?) used a form of dead reckoning to guide them to their target (they called it "inertial guidance" to snow the defense dept.). It's a really lousy method, as you pointed out, but nuclear missiles weren't graded for accuracy in those days either. -- Greg Kemp inmate, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Terre Haute, IN Internet: kempga@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.robotics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!newshost.cs.rose-hulman.edu!news From: kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Greg Kemp) Subject: Re: Questions about Tracked Robot Vehicles Message-ID: <1992Apr9.144934.27189@cs.rose-hulman.edu> Sender: news@cs.rose-hulman.edu (The News Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: sepia.nextwork.rose-hulman.edu Reply-To: kempga@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology References: <1992Apr9.131650.7721@sctc.com> Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:49:34 GMT Lines: 25