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this should be pretty easily solved with a forward/downward facing depth sensor (to identify and avoid the debris). The fact that they didn't do this says to me
by Jack000 10y ago
this should be pretty easily solved with a forward/downward facing depth sensor (to identify and avoid the debris). The fact that they didn't do this says to me that debris may not have been a major problem in testing.
- hga 10y agoAnd/or it can deal with that it comes across. A thin package of screws and nuts, e.g. Home Depot sells a line where a huge selection is like $1.83 or $1.18 (e.g. each package will have a certain balanced set of nuts and bolts, or a few screws), and those packages are sufficiently flat I'd expect them to be no obstacle. Bigger stuff it could just push forward, ideally sensing when that was happening and backing up and going another way. The big trick would be the stuff just low enough to get under it, but that would then block it and get stuck. This is just off the top of my head, and I'm intrinsically not interesting in robots, I'll bet this is a well developed area in it by now.