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Originally Posted by Paul Marshall
The standard way of tracking one of the IR beacons is to use the IR sensor mounted on a servo. So, since FIRST has classified servos as motors, we can't use unlimited number of them. So if we want to use the servo's for something else other than tracking, how do you find the angle to the beacon without a servo?
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Well the simplest way would be to just turn the robot untill you see the beacon in both sensors (similar to line following), and then drive straight forward.
Other methods would include essentially building your own servo using a motor, and some sort of feed back (such as a pot or encoder)