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Article #736Re: ideas for inclination sensors
From: Louis L. Whitcomb
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 13:39
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1990 13:39
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Greetings: So I suppose ring gyro lasers are out. Sigh. The pendulum works well when the vehicle's max acceleration is low enough not to disturb the reading. You can get low cost (~$5) 2 axis potentiometer joystick innards from some junk electronics houses (Edmund Scientific used to sell just the thing) and mount it upside down with a lever arm and bob attached for a 2-axis inclinometer. Cheap a/d and you are done. -Louis. -- ............................................................................ Louis L. Whitcomb llw@corwin.eng.yale.edu ph: (203) 432-4311 Yale Robotics Laboratory fx: (203) 432-7481 Department of Electrical Engineering, 1968 Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!corwin.eng.yale.edu!llw From: llw@corwin.eng.yale.edu (Louis L. Whitcomb) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: ideas for inclination sensors Message-ID: <LLW.90Oct16093950@corwin.eng.yale.edu> Date: 16 Oct 90 13:39:50 GMT References: <3717@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University, Center for Systems Sciences Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: corwin.eng.yale.edu In-reply-to: fredm@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU's message of 16 Oct 90 04:48:31 GMT