I'd like a better way of determining the true location of my rover during testing. For now, I'm testing it around known landmarks and recording by hand approximately where it went (to be later compared to GPS, odometery, etc). It seems like there must be a better way. I'm thinking of something like audio beacons, or a camera (if I could get it up high enough). It could be something that is not allowed for a contest like the AVC, but something that would be easy to set up for test runs. Any ideas?Also, last year by this time Sparkfun had announced the AVC. I'm hoping for an announcement any day now! And a FreeDay announcement?
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Another good test is path closure. Drive a big loop and then make sure your start and stop points are the same.
Scott
Next idea: have the bot send out ultrasonic pings, listening stations pick up the pings and geolocate the bot. This does require the listening stations and the bot to all be in radio communications. Of course, this is just complicated enough that for me its not worth it.
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