[Dprglist] RBNV Addenda

[Doug Paradis]

David,
     It makes sense to allow videos for gold and black stars since videos
allow for better and clearer meeting flow. For example, Carl's outdoor
rover video from last night. It would be a time consuming and difficult
demo to do live in the meeting. The stars are meant to show progress since
the last meeting, therefore the clarification of how to get a star. A great
meeting with 5 gold stars! I believe that is a record.
Regards,
Doug P.

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 1:27 AM David P. Anderson via DPRGlist <
dprglist at lists.dprg.org> wrote:

> Howdy DPRG,
>
> Really good RBNV this evening.   So much progress.   Makes me feel like
> a slacker :)
>
> Chris, very cool python implementation of the navigation algorithms.
> Definitely Gold Star worthy.   In the video the robot is clearly
> steering and correcting in real time.  And the odometery location
> doesn't really drift much.  Using the IMU for heading appears spot on.
> Also gratifying to hear that it was not that hard to port and get it to
> work, and incorporate into your existing environment.
>
> Seems like you might now be able to throw in a little rudimentary
> obstacle avoidance to bounce the robot away from detections, and the
> navigation should handle the rest.  So one might toss a box in it's way
> while it drives it's pattern...
>
> Doug,I have a correction to make.  The navigate turn constant on Rcat is
> 120 (i.e., 12.0%) not 600.  I read the wrong parameter. The navigation
> rotation rate is 8, so 15 times through the control loop to reach full
> value if starting from 0, a little more than 1/2 sec at 25 Hz.
>
> I had a good belly laugh thinking about our newest Gold Start video rule
> (has to be made since last RBNV) and how we are slowly making up rules
> for this game.  Organically, as it were.
>
> Our First Grade teachers would be proud.
>
> cheers!
>
> dpa
>
>
>
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