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Sensors

Submitted by mike on Sun, 2009-01-11 19:21

Table of Contents

1.1. Orientation: compass
1.2. Orientation: accelerometer and gyroscope
1.3. Outdoors Localization (GPS):
1.4. Indoors Localization: Overhead camera or Northstar
2.1. Stereo vision
2.2. ZCam
2.3. Laser range-finder
2.4. SHARP IR Distance Measuring Sensors
2.5. Audio
2.6. Light
2.7. Heat
2.8. Microsoft Kinect

This page has links to available sensors. Please add sensors to the categories and give some explanations on the relative advantages/disadvantages in terms of functionality and cost.

Proprioceptive Sensing

Orientation: compass

http://www.acroname.com/robotics/parts/R117-COMPASS.html

Orientation: accelerometer and gyroscope

http://www.androidworld.com/prod47.htm

Outdoors Localization (GPS):

http://www.acroname.com/robotics/parts/R312-GPM-PLUS.html

Indoors Localization: Overhead camera or Northstar

http://www.evolution.com/products/northstar/

Exteroceptive Sensing

Stereo vision

http://www.prosilica.com/products/allmodels.html
http://www.ptgrey.com/products/stereo.asp
Stereo Vision Systems from Point Grey Research. See Bumblee2 and Bumblee XB3. XB3 has 3 cameras to get accurate depth information. All have firewire interfaces. Optionally, Point Grey provides with firewire PCI Express cards.

ZCam

ZCam is a sensor that can detect depth in images. To find out more look out for Project Natal on youtube. It is very cheap as it is sold as an accessory to XBox. Buy from 3DV Systems: http://www.3dvsystems.com/