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Originally Posted by davidthefat
How far do you want to drive? How will you know how far?
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The sensor (gyro or accel) will tell us when we've driven far enough. The drivers themselves will control the robot until then, in my idea.
I suppose you could have it drive forward a certain distance, controlled by encoders, or time based, but that's tricky and tweaking it takes a long time and it may be too variable.
Thanks Matt, how sensitive is the accelerometer to vibration and motion? I assume this means that it gives back a noisy signal that's harder to make sense of? Will the bridge rocking back to level be any problem with this? We've never really used the accelerometer on a competition robot.
Yeah, the Kalman filter sounds nice. I've read a little bit about it and my first impression is that it's a little too advanced for most teams, including my team. But all the power to you if anyone could get it working with better results. That would be cool.