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From: vaitken@dres.dnd.ca (Vic Aitken)
Subject: Re: Time delays (was Re: Distance to Mars)
Message-ID: <1993Jun14.161651.14443@dres.dnd.ca>
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Keywords: virtual reality, mars rover, speed of light
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 16:16:51 GMT
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In article <C8Gz43.63E@cs.uiuc.edu>, kadie@cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M Kadie) writes:
|> I think part of what makes it hard for people to balance a rod is that
|> our reaction time is slow. This means that our "control program" has
|> to be pretty smart.
|> 
|> Has anyone tried having a slow reaction time robot to the balancing
|> task? Does it require a smarter control program?
|> 
  Meissner and Dickmanns [1] employed a vision-based control system to
stabilize an inverted pendulum on an electro-cart with closed loop
corner frequencies up to 1 Hz. I know--this is still a long way from
the time delays in space exploration!

[1] H.-G. Meissner, E.D. Dickmanns, ``Control of an unstable plant by
    computer vision,'' in {\em Image Sequence Processing and Dynamic
    Scene Analysis}, T.S. Huang, Ed. Springer Verlag, 1983, pp 532-548.
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-- 
Vic Aitken, vaitken@dres.dnd.ca, (403) 544-4726, 
Defence Research Establishment Suffield (DRES)
Box 4000, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, T1A 8K6
(OPINIONS ARE MY OWN, NOT THOSE OF DRES)
