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Unread 15-01-2006, 14:56
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Re: 2006 Autonomous Disappointment

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
If nothing else, try for a dead reckoning approach to blocking your opponents goal, ie: drive forward two seconds, turn left for 1/2 second, drive forward for 2 seconds - see where your robot ends up, then tweak the timing to get the robot more or less where you want it on the field. then have it just sit there
Just to clarify, dead reckoning is not the practice of turning on a motor for a given time. That is just a pre-timed sequence.

Dead reckoning is using sensors on your robot to figure out its speed and direction and integrating to maintain an approximate location and heading. This is a widely misused term in FIRST... I'm not sure why.

See wikipedia.

Cheers!
-Joe