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6. Discussion
mined by trial and error and then built into the robot. Here the
appropriate error signal might be derived by watching the motion
of the base
itself.
To properly follow a wall the robot should
never have to stop because it is angled to far inward and might
collide otherwise, or because it is angled too far outward and
might leave the wall behind. We would start by priming the
sensitivity range of each module with the minimum acceptable
area. VEER should always respond to obstacles in the front
quadrant and THIGMO should never let the front half space
become vacant. Anytime the robot stops, the currently active
module shoul ...