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Unread 18-11-2005, 10:19
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Re: Direct Drive Four Motor System

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
... However, a reliable autonomous routine pretty much requires closed loop software control of motor speed.
Please don't tell our robot. We took the encoders off the drive wheels and mounted them on two boggie wheels about 6 inches each side of dead center - got better distance measurement that way. Direction was not a problem. Ask the folks at Rah Cha Cha or Novi - it would cap the center side goal dead solid perfect, or, with the gyro telling it when to stop turning, it could snatch a tetra from the autoloader and hold it over the center goal. The motor control was binary - on, then off.