I am very excited about this project! I have to build a robot from scratch. The robot has to perform the following automatically.
1.)Detect a light source and travel toward it, eventually reaching the light source.
2.)While traveling, detect any obstacles or walls that may be in the way and correctly navigate around them.
3.)any time the robot enters a small area marked off by tape, the professor will sound a smoke alarm (common household smoke alarm). At that time the robot must sense the audible alarm...stop...back up and go around the taped area.
I have purchased a couple products already for this project. I have the Ardunio Uno micro controller.
my first question is for the object detection... I purchased the Sharp IR sensor 10-80cm. Would I be better off with one of these on the front of my robot on a rotating axis? or with two of these mounted on either side of the robot? Im thinking with two of these I could almost triangulate the actual distance to the objects and react accordingly.
This is my first robot project, so if I should be thinkin in another direction please let me know.
1.)Detect a light source and travel toward it, eventually reaching the light source.
2.)While traveling, detect any obstacles or walls that may be in the way and correctly navigate around them.
3.)any time the robot enters a small area marked off by tape, the professor will sound a smoke alarm (common household smoke alarm). At that time the robot must sense the audible alarm...stop...back up and go around the taped area.
I have purchased a couple products already for this project. I have the Ardunio Uno micro controller.
my first question is for the object detection... I purchased the Sharp IR sensor 10-80cm. Would I be better off with one of these on the front of my robot on a rotating axis? or with two of these mounted on either side of the robot? Im thinking with two of these I could almost triangulate the actual distance to the objects and react accordingly.
This is my first robot project, so if I should be thinkin in another direction please let me know.