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Re: "mouse encoders"
The encoders were accurate everywhere except for turns. As you can imagine the two wheels being connected caused a bit of fight around a turn. The encoders do work well going strait though. It would be possible to make alterations to make it work better going around turns, such as having all three wheels on separate encoders where none of the wheels are tied together. The outside wheel would have a greater distance traveled than the inside wheel, but if you consider that into your math then it should work fine. We did not have a need to measure our distance while going around the turn. We used our gyro to make the turn. Our main purpose with the encoders were to know what lane we were in, and to have an assigned distance to travel forward before moving on to the next section of the code. Because of this we did not have a need to further develop the "mouse" to measure through a turn, but it could be done.
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