Tips for Sensor Programming and Testing
 

Would anyone have any tips for sensor programming and testing? We're trying to find the Optical sensor line tracking. Would anyone know to do this?

The optical sensors are digital (On/Off) devices. Wire them up to Robot Controller and sent the output to the Operator Interface LED

example:
out8 = rc_sw1 'optical sensor 1 wired to switch 1
out9 = rc_sw2 'optical sensor 2 wired to switch 2

Now you can see what the robot is seeing

Tim Tedrow

Line tracking is very simple. I can do it with one sensor and 5 lines of user code added to the default code. I hooked the white wire to rc_sw1(port one on the Digital Inputs) and used this code.

This is the simplest way I can think of to do line tracking. The only problem is it is slow and it can lose the line with a bump or the sensor not reading right. I would recommend using at least two sensors to follow each side of the line.

Hope this helps.

make sure there is contrast between the floor and the tape (or whatever you're tracking). i've tried a simple program, but it doesn't work because of that reason. i think i've found a floor that works now though :).