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[DPRG] Are representations what makes Can Can hard?
Subject: [DPRG] Are representations what makes Can Can hard?
From: Ed Paradis
legomaniac at gmail.com
Date: Thu Dec 7 19:03:02 CST 2006
On 12/7/06, Randy M. Dumse <rmd at newmicros.com> wrote:
> Why is it, then, very few robots entered in quick trip have
> odometry?
> It's like the step everyone tries to skip.
Well on the specific aspect of odometry, I think a lot of roboteers
never impliment anything because they are afraid what they can build
won't be ''good enough''.
They spend weeks and months trying to find the perfect set of motors
with encoders or knitpicking over complicated methods of connecting
encoders to wheels. They fear low accuracy, low counts per
revolution, etc etc
While several methods of doing odometry exist, encoders are the most
straightforward. I've seen a few designs that aren't too hard to
implimentm yet we still bang our heads against this one problem over
and over!
I've never been a big fan of 'group kit robots', but perhaps some sort
of 'group kit sensors' would be more suitable?
Ed
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