Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01146
To: beam@corp.sgi.com
From: Justin jaf60@student.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 17:54:57 +1300
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: Edge Detector
> Okay i can give you a little more info. I am tring to get my bot to
> stop at the edge of a table or other object before fall off. My
> current edge Detector is a basically a regular sensor (the one found
> at http://www.beckingham.com/)that
must be touching the table for the
> bot to move. The problem is that for this to work I need to lean the
> bot against the sensor which means when this bot reaches an edge the
> bot still falls off the edge because it no longer has that support.
> (Without making the bot lean on the sensor it tend to lift of a suface
> and stop the bot in the middle of a table.)
For my microvore entry, I had another set of "legs", these are
inflexible, and stop just above the table surface. When the sensors are
not propped up against anything, the bot just tilts forward until it
rests on the secondary legs. Easy :-)
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