Line Following Kinematics & Open source course programs in Processing

Part 1 – Line Following Kinematics:

DPRG member Will Kuhnle will address questions like:
> What are Kinematics of line following?
> How can Kinematics help my robot design?

TL;DR -> This is all about how to make a robot follow a path based on its physical parameters, where a path is a smooth curve (e.g. the DPRG Novice Course) or a combination of smooth curves and disjoint curves (e.g. the DPRG Advanced Line Following Course).

Part 2 – Open Source Course Builder and Interpreter programs:

DPRG member Ron Grant will demo and explain his interactive line following course builder program, which is written with Processing (java environment).

This builder program reads/writes a human readable format, and also SVG files suitable for import in to a vector based drawing program e.g., Inkscape.

Ron will also share a few words on a data format and interpreter that reads a description of line following course tiles in order and tracks path with each sequential tile. The format supports DPRG line following courses including all features of the Challenge Course except the finish gate (which is "hand coded").

Both programs will be published to a DPRG repository.

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