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Cunning!


> When rodney's cameras are tilted downwards they can only view a
> limited area within the immediate vacinity of the robot

A truly ingenious way of determining the distance ;)

Stereoscopy would be expensive though... It might be worth having a few sonar sensors, but I don't know how much they're worth.

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Wednesday 09 January, 04:25
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Wither ultrasonics?

I do actually have a set of six ultrasonic sensors from an earlier (now defunct) robot. It's quite possible that I could use these on Rodney, but I'd prefer to keep the system simple and efficient if possible.

I think approximate distance measurement should be possible with stereo vision, and this is the approach I'll be following. If the problem turns out to be absolutely insoluble only then would I resort to using the ultrasonics.

- Bob

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Wednesday 09 January, 13:37
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