6. Programming the Robot’s Sensors
Robot Sensitivity Training Lesson #5
A robot can sense when you are mistaken.
For a mobile robot, having some type of vision is critical. A mobile robot needs to avoid obstacles; determine its location and the distance to objects; and detect, recognize, and track objects using a multitude of sensors such as infrared, ultrasonic, cameras, image sensor, light, color, and so on.
Robot vision is a complicated topic and beyond the scope of this book. But a robot may not need a full vision system; it may require only a few of these capabilities based on the scenario and situation it is programmed for. In this chapter we focus on programming sensors that play some part in the robot’s capability to “see”—that is,
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