Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Re: [oopic] Re: New range finder needed

> OTOH, in Joe Engelberger's 1989 book Robotics in Service, that I have
> been reading lately, he does mention a simpler way to use a video
> camera. Namely, you use a laser [could be a laser-diode pointer
> today] to cast a single bright "line" onto an object, and then use
> the camera to analyze the deflections as the line bends around
> objects, etc.

That sounds similar to what I was describing.

Brian Lloyd
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