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Subject: 
RE: sensors, actuators, and software, oh my!
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Fri, 4 Apr 2003 16:26:36 GMT
Original-From: 
"Marco Correia" <Marco.Correia@soporcel.pt>
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> From: Dan Novy

> 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?

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 because of head movement,
taking samples in diferent vectors)

c) Smell = natural low-resolution spectometry ???

d) positional Touch/Pressure Level
e) global/positional Temperature level
f) Humidity level
g) Vibration = high-sampling d)
h) fluid/air flow sensing = d)+e)+f)

i) Balance(3D) <- aided by k)
j) Motion sensing <- aided by a)+b)+c)+h)+i)+k)
k) Vision = high-resolution a) + image interpretation leading to:
l) Surrounding environment 3D mapping acting like a virtual "sensor"
...a bit like a natural GPS substitute to the important question:
"where am I ?" with the added bonus of "where are you all ?"

m) feedback from almost all actuators (muscles) we have
(Extremely important data !)

n) energy level ;) -> "Am I tired ? hungry ?"

Artificial, usually used in robotics
o) Positional analysis of all radiation spectrum
(ex: simple 1 touch pressure sensing, low/high vibration, infrared,
visible light, ultra-violet, RF, X ray, etc...)
p) ...combined with positional generation of these, leads to
Radar/Lidar/Sonar type of positional feedback analysis
q) Artificial positional data (beacon based. eg: GPS)
r) Actuators feedback (energy spent, % of action)

etc...


mc.



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  sensors, actuators, and software, oh my!
 
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 (...) (24 years ago, 3-Apr-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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