Re: Location Detection

Brown, David J (UMR-Student) wrote:
> There are a lot of ways that you can fine tune the thresh holds that 
> each of your positions sensors would have. A robot that I am 
> currently working on uses an accelerometer/digital compass, gps and 
> digital encoders for its positioning.

Are you controlling all of this with a gumstix/robostix or do you have
some other sort of microcontroller?

> However not all these are extremely accurate, but using a filter
> (kalman filter for example) you can get much more precise
> coordinates. the robot uses stereo vision and sonar for object

What kind of software do you use to interpret the stereo vision input 
into 3D space?

> detection (along with infrared for close up) and is also put through
> kalman filters to increase the accuracy of the sensors. another
> method that you can use is the same technology in a mouse. kinda

I read your post here just after I sent my last one, my thoughts exactly.

> built a mouse sensor into the bottom of your robot chassis, when you
> move, the mouse picks up the your x/y coordinates.  this would seem
> to be pretty acurate if you were moving on a smooth surface, but
> wouldnt work at all outdoors. hope this helps Dave

Lots of good ideas, thanks.
--
Jeremy Grosser
www.runemonkey.com


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