Thread: Tank Steering
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Re: Tank Steering

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Originally Posted by biojae View Post
Navigation with skid steer is harder, and it seems no teams have done much with it
That's a pretty bold claim, as well has a VERY inaccurate one. A lot of teams have been doing skid steer navigation since autonomous began in 2003.

Here's the best advice I can give you: do NOT put your encoders on your drive wheels - put them on non-driven "dummy" wheels that do nothing but measure distance. By using non-driven wheels, all of the skidding and associated wheel slippage do not influence the measured distance.
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