[Dprglist] Compass heading using gyroscopes?

[David Anderson]

Murray,

Your comment is spot on.  On my SR04 robot there is a calibrated laser 
pointer for that very purpose; pointing the robot accurately at the 
first target.   For the experiments with the RCAT robot, the robot 
itself uses it's sonars to do the alignment, but since in the demo video 
there are no other waypoints, it's hard to know how effective it is.

cheers

dpa



On 05/17/2020 05:25 PM, Murray Altheim via DPRGlist wrote:
> I'm thinking about that corner challenge, particularly in light of 
> David's
> point that its origin was in tuning one's robot. It seems that even if 
> the
> odometry is perfect, getting the robot directly facing the first target
> is still key.