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Originally Posted by tr6scott
There was a team that posted their solution in previous years... I don't have link saved... but it boils down to, make x samples, sort the values, throw out the the a few of the largest, and a few of smallest, then average.
example, take 10 samples, throw top 2 and bottom 2 out, average over the remaining 6.
In the past these sensors have proven pretty good when used this way. The problem is when they are off, they are way off, so even a simple average data gets skewed.
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Ooooh, that's pretty clever. I hadn't considered that!
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Originally Posted by dk5sm5luigi
Given the noise we had seen in the past we switched to IR Rangefinders and probably won't go back. We found one that does up to 18 feet and the noise was easier to work with than the ultrasonic.
We listed them here: http://findrobotparts.com/sensors/ca...es/13/tags/635 |
That's also a possibility!
Does taking it out of continuous mode help? I would think so, but haven't messed with it much yet.