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Check for cliff detection for dealing with downward stairs #5

Closed hawesie closed 10 years ago

hawesie commented 11 years ago

Both TUW and KTH have issues with stairs. Did we ever find out whether or not we have a cliff sensor on the robot? (@cburbridge mentioned we might) If not, what can we do to make the robot safe in such situations? Without this it is going to be hard to do long-term runs at the aforementioned sites.

mzillich commented 11 years ago

right now we are doing runs in a different place without cliffs (though there are of course other hazards like door thresholds which let the robot tilt dangerously).

We could fence off the cliff, but that is not a nice solution. uncomfortable and there is the risk of forgetting to put the fence back.

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On 08/27/2013 01:04 PM, Nick Hawes wrote:

Both TUW and KTH have issues with stairs. Did we ever find out whether or not we have a cliff sensor on the robot? (@cburbridge https://github.com/cburbridge mentioned we might) If not, what can we do to make the robot safe in such situations? Without this it is going to be hard to do long-term runs at the aforementioned sites.

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nilsbore commented 10 years ago

@hawesie @mzillich This has been fixed.