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From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Subject: Re: making 90 degree turns
Message-ID: <1993Jun28.101604.29593@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
References: <1993Jun25.224911.3512@ttinews.tti.com> <HATTORI.93Jun28134637@athena.csrd.nkk.co.JP>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 10:16:04 GMT
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In article <HATTORI.93Jun28134637@athena.csrd.nkk.co.JP> hattori@csrd.nkk.co.JP (Mato Hattori) writes:
>3. Controling Wheels' Odmetery Presicely 
>	Using Two Rotaly Encoders, determine rotation of wheels,
>	calcurate length of circumference of the circle drawed
>	by wheels.  It may have error.  I believe this is the most
>	popular way of controling robots.

Not much use if your robot's wheel slips due to contact with a low friction 
surface though.

Davei

