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Originally Posted by Joe Hershberger
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!
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I was under the impression dead reckoning was running
without feedback, such as sensors, and just blindly driving, whether based on timers or loop counts or just setting your motors to a wide turn and leaving it.
"dead reckoning
n 1: an estimate based on little or no information [syn: guess,
guesswork, guessing, shot]
2: navigation without the aid of celestial observations"
http://dict.die.net/dead%20reckoning/ google turned this up, not sure of the validity, so I'm not really sure. Anybody have any other sources?