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Re: Video: Driving Miss Daisy...with a Kinect

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Originally Posted by MagiChau View Post
Thanks for the demonstration. Does the default software for controlling the robot drive map the current arm position for the motor speed? I know the arms act like virtual joysticks but I do not know if the program is detecting "movement" or "position" of the arm.
It is detecting the position of the arm as well, but because we are limiting the drive speed, you can't really tell. The video that 294 just posted shows off this feature much more clearly.