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Coordinate Systems (Where in the world is your robot?)

Hi all There are many ways of expressing your position in the world. We can use those same methods to represent where in the world your robot is. At the highest level there are two types of coordinate frames; global and local. In the global frame the robots position is specified based on a pre-established method that can uniquely identify…

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