
Jayutmb
USA
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So with bots running around in a "free range" fashion, how has everyone approached the falling down the staircase issue or other " off a cliff" type situations ? Is it as simple a a few ping sensors angled downward to detect a drastic change coming then loop to an avoidance script as if there was something in the way?
Personally, I have no problems with needing cliff detection since my robots are only allowed to roam around downstairs and the floors are all level but if I did choose to put some detection in it would be IR since it's (apparently) better than sonar for this function.
So im thinking of how to do a fail safe that will be hard wired to work off the sound it makes when it disconnects and causing the battery to be disconnected
Here's an example video showing the ports going low on disconnect.