[Dprglist] DPRG - 13 April Monthly Meeting - Line Following Kinematics & Open source course programs in Processing

[Carl Ott]

Looking forward to see y'all this Saturday -

*Agenda*

*Part 1 – Line Following Kinematics:*



DPRG member Will Kuhnle will address questions like:



What are Kinematics of line following?

How can Kinematics help my robot design?



TL;DR  -> This is all about how to make a robot follow a path based on its
physical parameters, where a path is a smooth curve (e.g. the DPRG Novice
Course) or a combination of smooth curves and disjoint curves (e.g. the
DPRG Advanced Line Following Course).



*Part 2 – Open Source Line Following Course Builder and Interpreter
programs:*



DPRG member Ron Grant will demo and explain his interactive line following
course builder program, which is written with Processing (java environment).



This builder program reads/writes a human readable format, and also SVG
files suitable for import in to a vector based drawing program e.g.,
Inkscape.



Ron will also share a few words on a data format and interpreter that reads
a description of line following course tiles in order and tracks path with
each sequential tile. The format supports DPRG line following courses
including all features of the Challenge Course except the finish gate
(which is "hand coded").



Both programs will be published to a DPRG repository.


FWIW -

you can also find & share the agenda each month at the DPRG meetup:


https://www.meetup.com/Build-More-Robots-with-DPRG/events/260491132/
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