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Re: Alice Goes Four Wheelin' (Autonomously)

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Originally Posted by phrontist
Why did it stop?
I don't know all of the details yet. When Alice entered the tunnel, the path planner has to rely on our LN-200 Inertial Measurement Unit and some very sophisticated state estimation code to guess where Alice moves from moment to moment. When the GPS unit started providing navigation solutions again, it looks like the arbiter may have freaked, causing Alice to go into safe mode.

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