Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mephisto!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!uvacs!ks5k From: ks5k@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Kristian Simsarian) Newsgroups: comp.robotics Subject: Re: Sonar/Camera platform Message-ID: <1990Jul15.151725.22001@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 15 Jul 90 15:17:25 GMT References: <18921@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Reply-To: ks5k@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Kristian Simsarian) Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department Lines: 19 Yes, Polaroid ultrasonic sensors are widely used as an economical rangefinder. Polaroid also offers hardware kits that include the transducers and control circuitry. You can contract them @: Polaroid Ultrasonic Components Group 119 Windsor St Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 577-4681 If you call and ask, they will send an information packet on the equipment - including a couple of articles ( i.e. BYTE Oct 1984). Kristian Simsarian