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