Odometry

Odometry describes the calculations and solutions you can use to help your robot know its location from its travel distance—which is crucial to autonomous operation!

The compact 4-Bar Odometry Pod rocks unique mechanical ingenuity to gather data with the utmost of precision on the soft tile surfaces of educational competition game fields. The Swingarm Odometry Pod, on the other hand, provides comparable proficiencies on the same game fields for chassis with higher ground clearance.

The brains of the bunch, the Pinpoint Odometry Computer, performs sensor fusion--taking in the inputs of two pods to output your robot's heading and location on the field. Compared to alternative setups that use 3 pods, the lightning-fast localization of the Pinpoint (which only requires 2 pods) is extraordinarily accurate!