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Re: "dead" reckoning and inertial navigation.

The original post was referring to dead reckoning based on measurements
of how much a robot's wheels spun. This made me think more of counting
knots trailing out the back of a sailing ship than of intertial nav.
So it sounds like my oceangoing analogy is out of date.

On the other hand, isn't inertial nav the wrong sort of scale for
controlling the movement of a small vehicle? Even if you have a map
of the environment, how close do you dare approach an obstacle without
risking a collision?

Rick.
smith@sctc.com       arden hills, minnesota