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Re: "mouse encoders"

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Originally Posted by martschr View Post
If you look at the picture David Brinza put in the thread earlier you can get a good idea of our setup. Basically there were two omniwheels connected by a shaft that was attached to one encoder. This was used as to determine distance of forward motion. In the back of that is one omniwheel perpendicular to the other two, and attached directly to a encoder. This was to give us info on how far over we moved. If we moved diagonally it would register both distances to give us our position (10 feet forward and 5 feet to the right). The biggest problem we had was mounting it, however this would have been easier if we haden't been a flopbot.
I saw the picture, big question did it work well, how much loss was there. Ours worked well but it started to having a lot of loss once a half lap was done, so you could not have lots of accruacy that you could depend on.
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