What does odometry mean?
Working out where the robot is by adding up its own measured movements. Drift builds up: odometry is an estimate, not the truth.
Learn it
- Taught in 2.1 Where am I? Sensing, Robot club
- Guide with live demos: Dead reckoning and odometry explained
Used in
- F9.8 Embedded systems: inside BugBot
- U1.3 Truth and belief
- U1.5 Seeing the signal
- U1.7 Project: write the data sheet
- U2.6 Go to a point
- U2.7 Project: a shape in the world
- U3.2 Write your own odometry
- U3.3 How the error grows
- U3.6 An error budget
- U3.7 Project: the long lap
and 8 more lessons.
Do the lesson in the simulator