Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ee0i+ From: ee0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ethan Z. Evans) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Sonar/Camera platform Message-ID: Date: 8 Jul 90 16:47:02 GMT Organization: Electrical and Comp. Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 18 To those who know: I need to find two things: A two degree of freedom (pitch and 360 degree rotation) camera mount, and a good source of moderately priced ultrasonic rangefinders. After spending the last year making the base and the arm of our mobile platform work, its now time to give it eyes and ears. The basic idea (or so I've been told) is to use the sonar for collision avoidance and let the vision system do the rest. As such, the camera will be mounted up above the rest of the robot on a pole of some kind, and needs to be able to look at both where the base is going and what the arm is doing. The problem is, neither I nor my advisors have much of an idea of where to get this stuff. Any help on either item, whether an actual company rep. or simply another place to inquire would be apreciated. Thanks in advance, Ethan Evans ee0i@andrew.cmu.edu