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I am beginning to design a handyboard robot that, for starters, can navigate around a room. The idea is that it will travel to objects whose coordinates within the room are predetermined and interact with them. I plan to do this by triangulating the (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| | Re: Robot Positioning using Beacons
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The problem with IR is that it tends to get everywhere, reflecting off of surfaces etc, so it's hard to triangulate. May I suggest a related but different approach. Make your beacons out of hybrid IR/sonar transmitters. The beacons will periodically (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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That sounds good, but what do I use to drive each beacon, (e.g. send out the coded IR signal and sonar ping). Using a full blown microcontroller like the handyboard for each one would be incredibly expensive and wasteful. I only need a controller (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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Would a HandyCricket be good for driving the beacons? "Chris Steiger" <csteiger@comcast.net> wrote in message news:GvGHKu.2wr@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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