Stuffination

I’ve managed to complete 1 sensor board for the build 18 project.  The basic idea of the sensor board its to let the robots figure out their relative positions.  The sensor board consists of 5 IR emitter/detector pairs.  The basic idea is one robot will turn on its IR emitters and the other robots will use their dtectors to figure out their relative position based on which detector registers seeing the IR.

The sensor board is based, in concept, on the one found here: http://ipvs.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/BV/swarmrobot/tikiwiki-1.9.2/tiki-index.php?page=sbII . However, our sensor board uses only 5 IR emitter/detectors and we do not use ours for communication, only for relative positioning.

We plan to have at least 2 of these working, hopefully 4 in total.

Here is a gallery of images from the construction of the board:

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