How Does My Distance Finding Method Look?

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

I was thinking about it in school today, yea, my diagram need more info. My goal in teh short term is to be able to render a 3d image on screen with the info I get from the sensor. It sounds complicated but not really. I can get the x, y and z coordinates of the point just using trig.

It is pretty complicated, it may seem fairly simple but in practice it isn't. It is even more difficult since in FIRST we can't use laser range finders. IR, and Sonar range finders introduce a lot of noise.

If you are serious about looking into this in more depth research SLAM ( Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). Nearly every University with a robotics lab is doing some level of research on SLAM algorithms, this alone should be enough evidence to show you that this is not a trivial problem.