Sensor Mounting Aplications

[Jimmy Holmes]

As the new FIRST season fast approaches we are trying to be proactive on some things. One problem that has always come up is Sensor applications. The use of sensors and the ability to interpret the data is getting increasingly important in FIRST. Our Sensor mounting has been lacking at best. We are looking for ideas,pictures,drawings, etc..

The use of String Pots, LVDT's,accelerometers,digital compasses come to mind among others. We hope that as we all learn more about this subject the possibility's will be endless
In the past we have used wheels on our Pots to give us a position, but often they are bumped and we have to recalibrate their position.

For our position on the field we have used Banner sensors,mechanical and optical encoders and just dead reckoning. We are thinking about using sensors that read the teeth on gears.
We hope this thread will help others with Data acquisition questions and make everyone's autonomous modes that much better. We hope we didn't miss a previous thread on this subject but we hope if we did we can pull all the info into one place.

Thanks for any help. We hope to see everyone very soon. Team RUSH 27 Michigan