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Unread 13-11-2003, 22:05
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Those eye's are ultrasonic sensors. We actually had a plan to use those on our bot this year. We planned on building a small 2 axis scanner w/ servos and have 2 ultrasonics mounted on top. This would pivot around, scanning the distance of it's pings (think of a bat) and we actually had a 3D program running on our laptop that read the feedback from the robot and generated It's position within the field, and put up little "Walls" where it had gotten feedback from a solid object. I wish we'd gotten further with the project. This would have been a great way for the drivers to "see" past the ramp and ramp stacks.
Anyway, it looks real cool. This kind of technology is still kinda new on the Open end. Looks neat.
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