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Old 04-25-11 | 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by xenologer
Put a force meter in the hitch and feed it through a PD-controller to regulate the throttle/brake?
I would imagine it working something like that. You'd have a pair of load cells on the hitch and servo pulling the throttle and brake cable. Not as neat as an integrated controller but probably the simplest to arrange. Come to think of it, this idea would potentially work just as well with a two-wheeled trailer.
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