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Re: pic: Thousands of manhours of work... coming '07

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Originally Posted by Andrew Blair View Post
Haha, now I'm curious about what sensors you've included in the setup. I saw two encoders on the practice robot, but I always thought it'd be easier to use a gyro and one encoder. What hardware are we looking at needing?
The test setup we're using is one gyroscope, two encoders. While we could get away with one encoder, the added information opens up a bunch of doors. Since we're passing on both robots field position and heading as well as raw sensor data, you can use it for other stuff as well. The overheard for an extra encoder is minimal since we're offboard, so it's good to have the extra information. Plus it improves accuracy, which is a big concern considering the large number of possible calibrations for different drivetrains we have to deal with.
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