Skid steering and turning on a dime

Posted by RoboBill on March 9, 2014 at 10:09pm

Is there any trick to get a rover to turn about its middle. I've set the skid steer IN to 0, the skid steer OUT to 1 and the steer2srv_p to 1/2 the distance between my drive wheel. It drives OK but I can't make the rover turn hard on the spot.

Thanks

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    • RoboBill March 10, 2014 at 8:34am

      Thanks for the guidance.... but sorry I can't find pivot_turn_angle in mission planner (1.2.97 nor AP Planner 2) full parameter list. So I gather its set through the terminal. If so is there a link you can forward to show me how to set this parameter.

      Thanks

    • RoboBill March 10, 2014 at 2:03pm

      TA-DAA  yep that did it. And experiment is the word..  what fun!

      Correct if I'm wrong with this observation...If I set the pivot_turn_angle to 90, the rover will turn the total angle required minus 90. If this is true it would be nice if there was a parameter that allowed the turn to be completed on the spot.

      Bill

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