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I probably have no clue what I am talking about, but wouldn't it be sorta like steering forces? Seek A Avoid B In your case, a ton of Bs in terms of leaves, b
by seivan 11y ago
I probably have no clue what I am talking about, but wouldn't it be sorta like steering forces?
Seek A
Avoid B
In your case, a ton of Bs in terms of leaves, branches and etc.
I guess it would need a wide scan to detect if there is a path either vertically or horizontally.
- jader201 11y agoWell, (A) has a tracking device. All the (B)s don't. If they did, then yeah, this would work. Right?
- seivan 11y agoYeah but I am thinking it has some sort of an scanner, sorta like self-parking cars do :). So once it Avoids (Steers away) B it can continue to Seek (Steers toward) A with the tracking device. Obviously depends on how well the scanner to pickup obstacles work. You would need some sort of a heat map to detect leaves or branches.
- jonathanyc 11y agoIt is a hard robotics problem. Saying that "it would need a wide scan" is a vast underestimation. Try looking up some papers on obstacle avoidance. Also, consider the costs of sticking the additional sensors on the robot, processing that data in realtime, and still powering the whole thing.
- donhan 11y agoI am guessing the biggest problem is the noise. Yeah, it's easy to figure out if there is a giant wall standing in front of you, but what about snow that constantly blocks its lens? Some leaves may be attached to tree so it might be required to circumvent, but some might not even be worth circumventing if it's just a piece of leaf falling.