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Tag Archives: control

Robot wheel control

Posted on 2017-12-04 by Rebecca Brannon

I had some fun today mentoring a group of students to figure out how the wheels on their robot must be controlled in order to make it travel along a given Bezier curve (black line). We used animation to visually confirm our formulas.

 

Posted in Projects | Tagged analytical geometry, bezier curves, control, path math, robots | Leave a comment

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