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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: Tracked mobile robot dead-reckoning
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.184635.11631@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1k187mINN705@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:46:35 GMT
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- feng@srvr1 (Liqiang Feng, ) writes:
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- >I am working on the navigation problem for a tracked vehicle.
-
- You need a heading reference. A magnetic compass (flux-gate,
- presumably) or a heading gyro should do it. You can often keep track
- of distance travelled by dead-reckoning, but small errors in heading
- have large effects after you've travelled any distance, so you need a
- heading reference.
-
- John Nagle
-