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Asked by: Puya Maleky
Subject: Using gyroscopes in a robot
Question: Hi everybody

I need a device to determine my robot's position in all three dimensions and need to know is it parallel to ground.please help me.
tnx
Puya
Date: 13 October 2002
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Answer: Richard Brown - 15/06/2003 07:00:20
 Sorry to say that a gyro won't be able to track position for very long, as frictions and earths movement will cause an error to quickly build up. Better to use other types of level & orientation sensors. By position I presume you mean orientation (angular postion) rather than translational position. For that you'd need something like GPS for larger distances or RF sensors for small distances.

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