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Unread 12-01-2008, 14:31
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Re: rangefinding/object detection

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Originally Posted by joshyboy9987 View Post
I was thinking about this a little while myself. We're thinking of having a similar system for our robot in this year's competition. What if you used an Ultrasonic sensor to do a wide sweep, and then if it found anything unusual, you could use an IR or laser rangefinder to do a fine resolution sweep? You could have all of that stuff mounted on servos too, just so that you could get the direction the obstacle is in.
Are we allowed to use laser rangefinders? I read one rule that said "no lasers" I thought. Then again, a lot of robots use lasers.