In this lab session, we will examine how odometry, also called dead reckoning can be used together with the LejOS tacho counter to keep track of where the robot is located after a period of movement.
Task:
Make the base vehicle drive a few times in a square and figure out how accurate the vehicle drives by observing how close to its starting position the vehicle stops after its tour. Does the vehicle stop at the same position each time?
Plan
We will conduct a series of tests and note the robots offset to the starting position. For this we use a paper layout with a predefined grid structure as seen below:
