<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Looking forward to see y'all this Saturday -</span></div><div><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Agenda</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Part 1 – Line Following Kinematics:</span></b><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">DPRG member <span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Will Kuhnle will address
questions like:</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">What are Kinematics of line following?</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">How can Kinematics help my robot design?</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">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).</p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Part 2 – Open Source Line Following Course Builder and Interpreter programs:</b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">DPRG member Ron Grant will demo
and explain his interactive line following course builder program, which is
written with Processing (java environment).</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">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.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">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"). </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Both programs will be
published to a DPRG repository.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">FWIW -</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">you can also find & share the agenda each month at the DPRG meetup:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><br></span></p><div><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Build-More-Robots-with-DPRG/events/260491132/">https://www.meetup.com/Build-More-Robots-with-DPRG/events/260491132/</a> </div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></p></div>