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### What's the difference between a holonomic and a nonholonomic system?

For a nonholonomic system, you can at best determine a differential relationship between state and inputs. You cannot determine a closed-form geometric relationship. This means that the history of ...
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### What does SE mean in robotics literature?

In that context, SE means "Special Euclidean" group, e.g. SE(3)* which is shorthand for "the special Euclidean group of rigid body displacements in three-dimensions". *Planning ...
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### What's the difference between a holonomic and a nonholonomic system?

A holonomic constraint is a constraint on configuration: it says there are places you cannot go. That is a reduction in freedoms. That’s (usually) bad. A nonholonomic constraint is a constraint on ...
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### How to convert vertical motion to horizontal?

Scott-Russell type mechanism. For weeks I was trying to come up with a solution for that exact problem for a engineering project mine. Look it up.
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### Are robot's codes usually compiled or interpreted?

Robots tend to be portable devices powered by batteries. Portable battery operated devices tend to use embedded processors with limited power and memory. Compiled code has several advantages over ...
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### Math behind trajectory planning

Since the problem is one dimensional, you are actually asking to compute a velocity profile. (A velocity profile is the information of how a path is traversed with respect to time.) Now the problem is ...
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### What does SE mean in robotics literature?

It is a mathematical concept call the "Special Euclidean" group. Roughly, it is a combination of a rotation and translation. You'll also frequently see SO3, which is the special orthogonal group which ...
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### Robot mechanism parts names

This is called a Stewart platform. You can use any linear actuator type, hydraulic, pneumatic or electric.
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### What does SE mean in robotics literature?

$SE(3)$ is the representation for both translation and rotation in 3D space, whereas $SO(3)$ is only the representation for rotations. $\mathbb{R}^3$ is for translations in 3D space. If you only ...
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### What's the difference between a holonomic and a nonholonomic system?

Holonomic constraints are constraints that can be expressed in the form of an equation relating the coordinate of the system and time Non-holonomic are constraints that cannot be expressed in the ...

### How to convert vertical motion to horizontal?

This should have probably been a comment to @RobertEnglish answer ... but comments don't seem to allow pictures Bavel gears. Plastic ones should be rather inexpensive.
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### Is this gear design feasible?

Hmm, thats definitely a unique idea. I think the shape of the top gear would have to be rounded off like half of a torus so it maintains a good interlocking through the motion from parallel to 90 ...
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### What are the different ways to control distance to be covered by a robot?

There are far too many to list them all here but I can list the most common ones: As you said base the movement off the motor RPM, and the diameter of the wheels and move for a period of time. This ...
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### Basic question about Markov Localization, probability and belief distribution shift

Here is what I 'believe'. Lets make the diagram more labeled. Say door 1 starting from left most is at 4 meters from the origin at left, door 2 at 7 meters, door 3 at 15 meters. When the robot senses ...
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### Basic question about Markov Localization, probability and belief distribution shift

The robot has sensed a door, so the initial belief distribution matches the three possible door positions. i.e. the only three places that it is possible for the robot to be in that scenario. The ...
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### Basic question about Markov Localization, probability and belief distribution shift

I think this is just a way of illustrating the main idea behind the probability distribution and the representation is not complete. The idea is that there is a moment when the door is detected and ...
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### High-traction thin tires vs Wide moderate-traction tires? [Sumo-bot]

Well, I moved my answer here from the Engineering SE because it looks like your question is probably going to get closed there, just like it got closed at the physics site. Assuming everything about ...
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### is it possible to track movement on a tennis court?

Well the IR tracking system can work, but I think you need to place the camera at the ceiling. Usually the distance between player and camera at the ceiling of a tennis-hall (height 8+m I guess) stays ...
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### Robot start-up movement problems

Try running the motors in free-load condition (holding in air). If motor runs then, most likely they are not able to carry the load or the battery is dying. Try replacing the battery & see if that ...
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