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- From: rlee@bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
- Subject: Robot vision
- Message-ID: <Bz40Dw.A5r@andy.bgsu.edu>
- Sender: rlee@andy.bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
- Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:20:19 GMT
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- Thanks to all of you with suggestions on robot projects. I think I've got
- one nailed down.
-
- The snag I've run into so far is that I need to find a cost-effective way
- to give my robot limited vision. I need it to do a 360 degree scan of its
- environment, read the sensor at set intervals, send it to and A/D converter,
- store the values in a RAM memory, then analyze the values to get a rough
- picture of its environment. Basically, the final result needs to be an
- array of values that reflect the surrounding area where the value will
- give the computer an idea to determine where objects in the room begin and
- end.
-
- This is a crude method and prone to error but I figured the other option
- was to do a scan at two different places to get a binocular view. But that
- would require a lot of trig functions, not easily implemented in 6802
- assembler language.
-
- If anyone has done a similar problem I'd really like to hear about your
- results.
-
- -BOB
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