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Re: GPS antenna for an outdoor autonomous vehicle?

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Originally Posted by Billfred View Post
For caution-causing issues: A Kinect isn't going to cut it--the 20-foot range is less than a half-second to react to something ahead if it's on the track. Establishing communications between our car and the other track vehicles (tow truck, emergency vehicles...) could be done in theory, but that still doesn't eliminate a regular car being stuck on track. This is one of those known unknowns at the moment; our worst-case scenario is to manually slow and steer the car to get around a particularly tricky patch. This is, after all, a safety matter.
A LIDAR unit on the front might do it. Only problem is, those cost a bit. You could also try some longer-range laser rangefinders (again, cost could be an issue).
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