Autonomous Sensing

[joshyboy9987]

We don't have anything working so far, but we've been working on some code to use the accelerometers and gyro that come in the kit. They can give you both linear acceleration (in two directions) and rotational acceleration. By doing some Calculus, you can use them to get distance pretty simply.

Also, for obstacle evasion we were thinking about a ultrasonic rangefinder. Pretty much any rangefinder that doesn't use light, because almost all the boundaries are glass!