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All of our code for our 2018 robot.
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New LIDAR Sensor #29

Closed andrewgazelka closed 6 years ago

andrewgazelka commented 6 years ago

Mentor Chris Olson had an idea that we should look into or try LIDAR sensors (which I previously thought would cost mucho dinero). I have not looked deeply into this, but it sounds interesting — especially if the cheap LIDAR sensors are any good.

Note: to get data from cheaper LIDAR sensors (at least from some that I saw) we might need to use an Arduino and Arduino C and then probably transfer it through Network Tables. I am not sure whether this is practical or not.

isaacaj commented 6 years ago

I think that a LIDAR sensor would present a great learning experience for us. We would most likely not end up doing anything with it until after build season, though.

A cool long term or summer project could involve some sort of collision detection/avoidance.

andrewgazelka commented 6 years ago

Randall Maas talked with me about this today. He thought LIDAR sensors are pretty useful and can be used with triangulation (seeing distance between 3 known points) to determine the absolute location of the robot.

andrewgazelka commented 6 years ago

@donovanMaas

andrewgazelka commented 6 years ago

Is not worth trying to add for this current robot. Will be considered for the summer.