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Re: Lego sensor or Radar ?
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 4 May 2002 04:50:51 GMT
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Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.netSPAMLESS>
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"B. Shahian" wrote:

A student of mine is building a tracking system similar to a radar station tracking (and shooting missiles at) a moving target. He
is looking for a reasonable sensor to do this job. The sensor must determine where the moving target is and track it. Any
suggestions ?

First some questions that will make the replies from the list
more relevent:

* How fast does the target move?

* How big is the target?

* How far away is the target - typically?

* Can you attach things like lights or infra-red LED's to the target
  or must you detect it purely passively?

* Can you choose the colour of the target and the background that it moves
  against?  (eg: A white target with a black cloth draped behind it?)

* Can you use the full power of a PC - or must you do this with an RCX?

My first guess is that you'd probably do best with a Lego Camera...but a lot
depends on your answers to the questions above.

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  Re: Lego sensor or Radar ?
 
I would add another question to Steve's valuable list. Do you really want to do tracking? With one or two degrees of freedom, ie; azimuth or azimuth and elevation. IF that's what you're trying to do, then your sonar/radar sensor is going to have to (...) (22 years ago, 3-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)

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