🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.robotics
Article #551

Sonar/Camera platform

#551
From: Ethan Z. Evans
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 1990 16:47
18 lines
1249 bytes
To those who know:
	I need to find two things:  A two degree of freedom (pitch and 360
degree rotation) camera mount, and a good source of moderately priced
ultrasonic rangefinders.  After spending the last year making the base
and the arm of our mobile platform work, its now time to give it eyes
and ears.  The basic idea (or so I've been told) is to use the sonar for
collision avoidance and let the vision system do the rest.  As such, the
camera will be mounted up above the rest of the robot on a pole of some
kind, and needs to be able to look at both where the base is going and
what the arm is doing.  The problem is, neither I nor my advisors have
much of an idea of where to get this stuff.  Any help on either item,
whether an actual company rep. or simply another place to inquire would
be apreciated.

Thanks in advance,
	Ethan Evans
	ee0i@andrew.cmu.edu
	
Technical Details
Message-ID: <kaZqC6600VoRMACFoT@andrew.cmu.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ee0i+

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ee0i+
From: ee0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ethan Z. Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Sonar/Camera platform
Message-ID: <kaZqC6600VoRMACFoT@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 8 Jul 90 16:47:02 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Comp. Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Lines: 18