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14-02-2005, 22:45

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Re: You know what sucks?

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Originally Posted by ttedrow

Your job as the programmer is to compensate for all of the SLOP, BACKLASH, FRICTION and CG miscalculations the mechanical team has built into the robot. And by the way, you only get one week to fix their five weeks screw-ups.

Happy programming

I happened to be a programmer, and ttedrow is right.
Last year we had to compensate for the differenced between the motors on the left and the right, but it is probably easier to fix by programming it, compared to rebuilding it.

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