robot with load

[airglide]

Hello everyone,

I'm currently working on a robot which is driving around. The problem is, that the robot is quiet heavy. There is an inaccuracy of 10cm when he drives 300cm (speed 360 °/s). I've figured out that this inaccuracy is because of the weight. Thus the inaccuracy is constant if the robot has the same weight. So I thought I could fix it. Therefore I thought there should be a possibility, if the robot sees that he hasn't got enough power, he should drive a that bit further, he couldend compensate with the power...
or has someone a better solution for my problem?

I didn't want to specify my class only for my robot so I thought there should be a smarter way to do it then calculating the weight and multipling with a factor, so there's no accuracy

thank you

airglide

[TechnoX]

With acceleration and deceleration you should get higher precision.

Have you tried the DifferentialPilot (in lejos.robotics.navigation)?

[airglide]

not yet, I've wrote an own class for driving.. which uses RegulatedMotor methods forward(), I couldn't find a difference in the implementation of the DifferentialPilot

[skoehler]

not yet, I've wrote an own class for driving.. which uses RegulatedMotor methods forward(), I couldn't find a difference in the implementation of the DifferentialPilot

Are you using setAcceleration already?
http://lejos.sourceforge.net/nxt/nxj/ap ... n%28int%29

Default behaviour of forward() is to raise the speed from 0 to X instantly. That's rubbish, since the wheels will slip. Enabling smooth acceleration avoids that and is enabled with setAcceleration. DifferentialPilot also allows you to set acceleration. Try something like setAcceleration(10);

[airglide]

Hello,
well I've tested it out,

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public static void main(String[] args) {
   
      // wheel = 20.7 cm
   Motor.A.setAcceleration(20);
   Motor.B.setAcceleration(20);
   
   Motor.A.forward();
   Motor.B.forward();
   
   Delay.msDelay(10000);
   
   Motor.A.setAcceleration(0);
   Motor.B.setAcceleration(0);
   
   Motor.A.setSpeed(360);
   Motor.B.setSpeed(360);
   
   Delay.msDelay(15000);
   
   Motor.A.stop(true);
   Motor.B.stop(true);
   }


The robot should drive 229cm but he only drives like 220cm...
I'thought the problem is that the Motors haven't enough power, but if I do the same thing with 100 °/s instead of 360 there's the same fault..

thank you
airglide

[skoehler]

Are you using soft wheels? Because if the wheel are "compressed" due to the load, the robot will drive less than without the load.

[airglide]

you're right, that means they have another radius
thank you I'm going to try it out

airglide

[airglide]

ey skoehler,

I've put napkins in the wheels so they aren't soft anymore the inaccuracy is now about 2cm if I adjust the program it should be fine I didn't thought that the compression of the wheels have that a big impact

thank you very much

airglide