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Mobile Robot Localization by Remote Viewing of a Colored Cylinder

A system was developed for the Mars Pathfinder rover in which the rover checks its position by viewing the angle back to a colored cylinder with different colors for different angles. The rover determines distance by the apparent size of the cylinder.

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