Editing Software Onboarding/Inverse kinematics (section)

=Single Wheeled Robot=
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The simplest case of inverse kinematics is driving a single wheeled robot on a number line. The robot is capable of being commanded to spin its wheel at a specific speed (positive speeds will cause it to move right, negative speeds will cause it to move left), but we'd like to be able to command it to move to a specific position. To do so will require us to compute a sequence of motor speeds that, when executed by the robot, will move it to the desired target position. There are infinitely many sequences that get us from point A to point B, but we're only interested in the most direct route.

There are only two things we have control over. How fast the wheel spins, and how long it spins. This is enough control to get us anywhere on the line. If we want to move to position 4, we need to move the robot at 1 unit per second in the right direction for four seconds.

==Exercise==
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Create a function that drives the create forward or backward to a target position. Don't worry about turning the robot, just drive both motors at the same speed. Assume that the robot is at the origin
when the function is called.

  def drive_distance(distance, time):
    pass

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