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Servo Magazine (October 2005)
Articles:
Appetizer - Tom Carroll
Ask Mr. Roboto - Pete Miles
Building a Small Combat Robot - Part 2 - Kevin Berry
GeerHead - David Geer
Lessons From The Laboratory - James Isom
Robotics Resources - Gordon McComb
Robytes - Jeff Eckert
Rubberbands and Bailing Wire - Jack Buffington
Tetsujin Tech - Chuck Hellebuyck
The Assembly Line - James Antonakos
Then and Now - Tom Carroll
Projects:
An Infrared (IR) Flame Detector For Robots - Andrew Sheppard & Team "MadRobots"
Introducing the PROTOBot - Camp L. Peavy, Jr
KIT KOLLEGE - Part 3 - Dave Prochnow
RoboFac - Part 2 - Simon Arthur
The Gift of Sight - part 4 - Robin Hewitt
The NEA Micro-Lander Project - Part 4 - L. Paul Verhage
An Infrared (IR) Flame Detector For Robots
by Andrew Sheppard & Team "MadRobots"
Flame detection presents the robot designer with several challenges. Detecting and then locating a lone candle at a distance of only one or two yards in something resembling a real-world environment is surprisingly difficult, as anyone who has attended or participated in the Trinity Fire Fighting Robot Competition can attest. This popular contest, soon to enter its thirteenth year, has spawned many similar competitions, including one at Penn State.
So, when my son’s fifth grade robot team, “MadRobots,” asked me to help them design and build a flame detector for the Trinity contest, I took the challenge. We eventually settled on a design that uses an array of IR sensors with overlapping fields of view. This design has the advantage of being able to locate a candle (or flame) in terms of both direction and distance, in a single package with a simple interface. This article describes our IR flame detector and how to adapt its design for use with your own robot.
Columns / Departments
Mind / Iron
Ask Mr. Roboto
GeerHead
Rubberbands
Events Calendar
Robytes
Lessons From The Lab
Tetsujin Info
New Products
Robotics Showcase
Robotics Resources
Menagerie
Twin Tweaks
Then and Now
Appetizer
Tetsujin Tech
The Assembly Line
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