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Hacked Mouse as a Mini-sumo Sensor

Written by J Wolfgang Goerlich

Tuesday, 04 April 2006

There comes a time in every mini-sumo match when you know it’s over. Your robot has went head-to-head with their robot, and your robot is slowly slipping backwards. Right about this time, you’ll get a sinking feeling in your stomach. This is because you know that -- in no more than a second -- your mini-sumo is going to lose increasingly more traction and eventually lose the match.

The problem is that your mini-sumo does not know this. It is happily spinning its wheels, thinking it is moving forward, and probably anticipating victory in a more or less robotic way.

It would be nice if you could give your mini-sumo a sensor that lets it know where it is going. Then, either programmatically or discretely, you could add some logic that enables the mini-sumo to back out of a bad situation. A good method for accomplishing this is to hack a mouse, as seen in the Seeing-Eye-Mouse project. Can't wait to try this on one of my Sumovores.

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what about an accelerometer
Written by William ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) on 2006-04-04 14:25:21
Interesting post Wolfgang. I was also thinking that an accelerometer could also be used to do this (but not as cool). Perhaps something like this.

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