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From: rlee@bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
Subject: Robot vision
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Sender: rlee@andy.bgsu.edu (Bob Lee)
Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:20:19 GMT
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Thanks to all of you with suggestions on robot projects. I think I've got
one nailed down.

The snag I've run into so far is that I need to find a cost-effective way
to give my robot limited vision. I need it to do a 360 degree scan of its
environment, read the sensor at set intervals, send it to and A/D converter,
store the values in a RAM memory, then analyze the values to get a rough
picture of its environment. Basically, the final result needs to be an
array of values that reflect the surrounding area where the value will
give the computer an idea to determine where objects in the room begin and
end. 

This is a crude method and prone to error but I figured the other option
was to do a scan at two different places to get a binocular view. But that
would require a lot of trig functions, not easily implemented in 6802
assembler language.

If anyone has done a similar problem I'd really like to hear about your
results.

-BOB

