Re: Need a position tracker for a mobile robot.

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From: Gerry Roston
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 15:47

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The two solutions proposed so far are probably the best:
loran and gps.  if this is not what you want, here is a
cheap and sleazy method:

Get 3 yo-yo pots (more info available if requested).  these
are precision potentiometers/tachometers hooked up to a spool
if string (similar to a key-chain ...).  Anyway, locate three
of tehm in the world, attach the strings from all three to your 
robot, and you now know its position.

Well, I did say sleazy.

gerry
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gerry roston, field robotics center
robotics institute, carnegie mellon university
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, 15213  (412) 268-6557
gerry@cs.cmu.edu

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