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Re: Excellent paper!

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Originally Posted by tseres View Post
...the only problem is we didn't have any sensors...
The entire basis of a PID control routine is the ability to sense what's going on and take action to make it match what is desired. Without sensors, you can't have any sort of closed-loop feedback control.
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...we dont need any encoders because the gyroscope algorithms/functions we made will automatically correct for any motor error.
Gyroscopes are fine for rotational sensing, but without encoders, how is the robot going to know how fast or how far it's moving?