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sensors, actuators, and software, oh my!
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:49:01 GMT
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Dan Novy <dan@flashfilmworks.com!NoMoreSpam!>
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DAN@nospamFLASHFILMWORKS.COM
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Up for discussion.
So, while discussing "the next big project," my ten year old and I
tried to come up with a complete list of all the possible "signals"
available at any one time that could be incorporated into a robot,
whether practical, or useful or not. Questions like, "Does gravity
count as a signal? It's "on" all the time, can be used to create motion,
etc. There are standard signals or influencers (?) like light,
temperature, atmospheric pressure, radio signals, tv signals, any RF
stuff, etc. We were interested in what other people thought.
So, the question is, standing in a room, or in an open field, how
many signals/influence fields are passing through you at any one time,
ready to be sampled?
--
Dan Novy
Technical Supervisor
Flash Film Works
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| Depends on the Area... Near a Big City there would be Bunches FM AM Radio... Satellite. TV... Mircowave...UHF SHF LF HF Cell Phones Coredless Phones CB... POLICE/FIRE... Pagers... .. Food for Thought.. Randall Lee Crabtree www.hardlug.org "Dan Novy" (...) (22 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: sensors, actuators, and software, oh my!
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| Well, I'm guessing your ideas run the gamut of all the standard RF human-generated signals. It might be fun to track satellites, even if you can't decode their signals, I think most are just UHF. Besides standard radio transmissions, there is ULF, (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) One...or maybe infinity. Most modern physicists believe that matter and energy are the same thing - and that all forces can be described by some (as yet undiscovered) "Unified Field Theory". In that sense, there is one unified field that is (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | RE: sensors, actuators, and software, oh my!
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| (...) hmmmm... these jump to mind: Human "sensors": a) global/positional(2D) Light Level (also 3D because we move our head/eyes taking notice of the sampling vector) b) global/positional(stereo) Sound Frequency/Level (might also be considered 3D (...) (22 years ago, 4-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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