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Get Joint Angle of Robot's Wheels [getJointAngle()\

After some driving, you can use the getJointAngle block to find how many degrees each of the robot's wheel has turned:

Specify the Joint number you want to get the angle of and define a variable (such as "angle" as shown) to hold that value. For a regular Linkbot-I robot, with wheels on opposite sides, joint 1 is the left side and joint 3 is the right side as it faces forward.

Watch the video to learn more about the getJointAngle block. 

 

 
Example 1: Get the Joint Angle of a Robot and Output to the User

Use the driveAngle block to drive the robot one full rotation of its wheels, then use getJointAngle to get the joint rotation for Joint 1, and print the result in the Console.
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