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Hello. I'm a Robotics student and I'm looking for a little advice, including which products to purchase from the Robosavvy store.<br /><br />My current task is to come up with a robot that can navigate it's way to a point based on coordinates pre-loaded onto the robot. There will be no lines or other optical guides on the surface it moves across. There are however walls at each side of the surface.<br /><br />My question is; what is the best way to go about this, in your opinion, based on the kit and sensors available from Robosavvy?<br /><br />The best idea I've had is to purchase a system like this:<br /><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info.php/cPath/1195_1198/products_id/547">http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info ... cts_id/547</a><!-- m --><br />and add/remove sensors. I feel a two wheeled robot is the best for precise rotation about a point, is this correct?<br /><br />As for sensors, I thought a combination of IR distance sensor and possibly a magnetometer of some sort for compass/direction detection would be a good idea, using the edges of the navigation area for distance measurement for the IR sensor.<br /><br />Any thoughts?<p>Statistics: Posted by <a href="http://forum.robosavvy.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=2924">Alexceptional</a> — Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:13 pm</p><hr />
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