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Re: SONAR Sensor Software Driver

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Qbranch: The sonar code's seem to be rather simple programming-wise, with help from the readme file. Call one routine to start the action, then call another routine to get the distance.

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I think there's been lots of activity since I last visited this thread, and suggestions. Thanks to all. And, not to beat a dead horse, but has anybody got *any* ultrasonic to work on FRC?
Roger, I had a different method of timing for the Sonar than this driver uses, hence why mine was a little more complicated. I was using a CCP module in input capture mode to do cycle (nanosecond) precise timing. But, yes, you essentially get the same result, except i was reading out in tenths (of an inch) on a stationary robot and fairly stable 50 thousandths increments on an overhead cart.

To answer your other question... we sure did get an ultrasonic sensor to work. Our team as an offseason project finished a fully ultrasonic autonomous mode that worked flawlessly (and finished juuuuuust under 15 seconds ). Now, it did take a TON of data processing (band-pass filtering, trend/slope aquisition, line reconstruction, and curve fitting to be specific) which is part of why about 1 whole second is used just calculating after a scan is taken (we mounted our ultrasonic sensor on an airplane servo). We did use a PING))) sensor from Parallax. If you want more info just post.

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