24-01-2015, 14:27
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Lead Bumper Mentor
AKA: Mike Marandola
 FRC #0316 (Lunatecs) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Rookie Year: 2008
Location: Pedricktown, NJ
Posts: 662
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Re: Realistic Velocity Calculation
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Originally Posted by Caleb Sykes
Not quite an optical mouse, but I know that a couple of teams have mounted unpowered omni wheels beneath their robot that are connected to encoders in order to measure distance. Syncing the data with this with an angular measurement could then determine velocity and position. I think I remember 111 doing something like this last year, but I am unable to find the thread describing it.
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33 used omnis for odometry last year but I heard they didn't use them later on in the season.
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