[Dprglist] odometery test movie

[markus]

Hello David,

this is interesting. I did something similar on a smaller scale for
Freddiie which I brought to a Roborama a few years ago. It has a timer
and periodically squares itself up against the closest "edge".
For the Table Top 2 that was the edge of the table and for Can-Can
soccer it was a wall (although Freddiie did really poorly there).

It does a similar "bum shaking dance" as rcat does, but Freddiie isn't
as subtle about it. Due to the known location of the reference edge it
can re-calibrate its entire pose, not just the alignment. In order to
save time (it was a competition/race after all), it alternates the
axis. First it chooses an edge along the X axis, the next time the Y
axis ... that way it didn't have to spend the time driving into a
corner.

I did the UMBmark calibration as per your instructions. But before the
competition I was taking the robot apart so many times that I couldn't
spend the time running through that process each time. Using periodic
pose adjustments made odometry much more resilient to errors in
alignment and uneven ground (Freddiie is fairly small and light, way
too easy to get distracted by debris on its path).

If memory serves right the competition was filmed, although I don't
think I ever found it on the dprg website.

Thanks for reminding me, Good times!
Markus


On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 23:57:20 -0500
David Anderson via DPRGlist <dprglist at lists.dprg.org> wrote:

> Hello DPRG,
> 
> Here's the video I mentioned in the meeting Saturday but forgot to
> post the link:
> 
> http://www.geology.smu.edu/dpa-www/robo/mpeg/rcat-202005-9-2.mpg
> 
> Still haven't figured out how to show video in google meetup. Lou 
> mentioned that also.  Maybe it's not possible.  It did seem to work
> at last months meeting when I just pointed the laptop camera at the
> desktop screen, and played the video on the desktop.  But the
> "presenter" function doesn't seem to be able to keep up.
> 
> Likely I just don't know what I'm doing.
> 
> onward into the fog,
> 
> David
> 
> 
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