[Robotgroup] Drive a Droid proposal... How to detect the

[Clendon Gibson]

Hi Brooks. I missed your proposal in the torrent of e-mail about the barrier. 

I think a reverse and turn of some kind would do. There are many toy robots that do just that. They reverse and turn when detecting an obstacle and then continue forward.



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From: brooksdesign <brooksdesign at peoplepc.com>
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Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Drive a Droid proposal... How to detect the

  Yes that is what I was saying but Bryan spotted the problem I did not. I would have said have it just stop and let the roboteer step in and reset, but now that I thinks about it, how about a reverse the last 3 or 4 seconds of commands, pause, and return control to transmitter/operator.
-brooks

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 9, 2008 1:22 AM
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>Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Drive a Droid proposal... How to detect the
>
>On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Clendon Gibson wrote:
>> perhaps we are all looking at this the wrong way. We are all thinking
>> about how the robot detects the fence. Maybe the fence needs to
>> detect the robot.
>
>I think that's what Brooks was suggesting. Once the fence makes the 
>detection, transmit the commands to the bot, but then how does it know 
>in which direction to turn the bot? 
>
>- Bryan
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