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Originally Posted by Mike
I'm not necessarily going towards shape recognition. This isn't for FIRST. I am trying to develop an autonomous robot (based on a RC truck chassis) that can find the easiest way to a beacon that will be hidden in the woods. So it's going to have to drive around trees/rocks/etc. but still not run away from a dust cloud and the like.
Should I be looking into technologies other than video?
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Yes, probably the best (and most expensive, unfortunately) would be some kind of laser range-finder. The next-best would probably be ultrasonic "pingers" looking for obstacles.
I don't think any of the DARPA cars used vision to do very much (correct me if I'm wrong
). They mainly relied on the laser range finders and GPS location being fed into those fancy route-plotting algorithms you mentioned earlier.
What kind of beacon were you thinking of?
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