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Re: IR tracking

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
If you only track one beacon you can determine that you are located on a circle whose center is the beacon. With two sensors you can tell the distance to the center of the circle. Unfortunately you can't tell where on the circle you are without another reference of some sort. You would need to know where you started and how far and in what direction you travled since the start to be accurate.

Or......
you can use the idea of a differential measurment.

TAke a snapshot of the 2 angles, go a known distance, then take another snapshot. That gives the third data point, and a "fix" of where you are.

Hmmmmm. interesting.
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