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Re: All-around-the-robot bump detection
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 09:22:47 GMT
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Janet and Carl McIver <JNCMCIVR@stopspamGTE.NET>
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Like I said, just ideas, and I haven't yet woken up.  Thoughts ?

    I like the pneumatic idea, but instead of using a cylinder, how about
taking a piece of Lego tubing and bending it, so that when you have pressure
in the system, the tube wants to straighten, thus activating a touch sensor.
I would think that surgical tubing would work fine for the perimeter
detection, but you need just a little bit of air pressure to create
movement.  Imagine a Bourlon tube, such as thermostats and the like.  It is
a coiled tube that when pressure is applied, opens up enough to show a
change.  I hope that is clear enough to make it understood.



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