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From: gat@forsight.jpl.nasa.gov (Erann Gat)
Subject: Re: Dead reckoning
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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:41:26 GMT

In article <GERRY.92Apr10110253@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
>  I suspect that when
>we repeat these tests as the Ambler walks around outdors, that the
>error will be less.  [Why?  Because I suspect that the error in my
>ground truth measurements were high due to the confined conditions of
>the building in which the earlier tests were done.]

Why whould confined conditions increase ded reckoning errors?  Is the 
robot bumping into the walls?

Erann Gat
gat@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov

