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tumble weed robot
« on: February 23, 2007, 12:22:30 PM »
some robots have very practical purposes.

and other robots tumble a weed around . . .

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1471870229526437762

and other weird robot like art, 'Rossum's Mechanosphere':
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~garthz/Rossum's/Mechanosphere.html
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Re: tumble weed robot
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2007, 07:36:03 PM »
You would think that all it would take is a PID control to even out the tumble weed. Could probably even use a ball then.
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Re: tumble weed robot
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2007, 05:35:06 PM »
Is that remote controlled?
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Re: tumble weed robot
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2007, 02:30:38 AM »
No it wouldn't be remote controlled. It would have sensors of some sort.

If you can imagine, there wouldn't be much point to an intricate machine like that if someone was controlling it.

As was said above, the PID control is very important in an application such as this.
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