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[paperclippy]

You know, when you are writing the documentation for a robot simulator, and there are commands to give the robot an angular velocity, it might be nice to mention which direction is positive and which is negative.

Comments

[bennj.livejournal.com]

Doesn't angular velocity have a nice standard given by the right hand rule? (ie positive is counterclockwise)

[jwgh]

Looked at from which direction?

[bennj.livejournal.com]

Supposing the robot has a "top" side, looking down at that.

[paperclippy.livejournal.com]

That's true. However, they don't seem to follow most conventions for directions in this simulator, so who knows? Hopefully the angular velocity's sign is the same as the laser range finder (all I know about that is that 0 is straight ahead).