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Originally Posted by artdutra04
...in threory*, the acceleration measured from the accelerometer can be used as a internal GPS system...
* I've never actually tried this; this is just an educated guestimate from what "should" be feasible on paper...
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You're talking about an Inertial Navigation System. GPS relies on external references; INS is fully self-contained.
Other people
have tried it on FIRST robots. There's too much noise (mechanical, mostly) for anyone to have made it work reliably...yet.