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Dual Infrared Obsatcle Sensor
Features
DROD40Dual Infra Red Obstacle Detector can be used when your Robot needs an "Eye or Touch" in order to sense the possible obstacles in its way. One simple way to do this is to use Lego touch sensor based tentacles to detect obstacles. However this works only when your robot is too close to the obstacle. Other way is to transmit either Radio Wave (RADAR), Ultra Sonic Waves (SONAR) or Infra Red Radiation (DROD) and detect the reflected waves or radiation from the obstacle ahead. While using SONAR or RADAR you can get distance information. However most of the time robot only need to know approximate range of the obstacle and not the precise distance.

mindsensors.com has developed a very economical solution to this problem - DROD (Dual Infrared Obstacles Detector) that is designed with these objectives in mind and have range of 6" to 1.5' depending of the object size. This sensor is capable of detecting obstacles on Left, Right or ahead.
Since DROD provide reading of LEFT, RIGHT, AHEAD robot can avoid obstacles very intelligently. NQC program for this is also included on this page as an example. When executed this, program checks for the DROD and if there is an Obstacle it turns the robot in order to avoid it.
NQC Program
NQC
// To use with Left -Right Drive kind of motor
// Motor A--- Left motor
// Motor B--- Right motor
task check()
{
  while(true)
  {
    if(SENSOR_2 >70)
    {
      OnRev(OUT_A);
      OnRev(OUT_C);
      Wait(75);
      OnFwd(OUT_C);
      Wait(50);
      OnFwd(OUT_A);
    }
    if(SENSOR_2 >45)
    {
      OnRev(OUT_A);
      OnRev(OUT_C);
      Wait(75);
      OnFwd(OUT_C);
      Wait(50);
      OnFwd(OUT_A);
    }
    if(SENSOR_2 >15)
    {
      OnRev(OUT_A);
      OnRev(OUT_C);
      Wait(75);
      OnFwd(OUT_A);
      Wait(50);
      OnFwd(OUT_C);
    }
  }
}

task main()
{
  SetSensorType(SENSOR_2, SENSOR_TYPE_LIGHT);
  SetSensorMode(SENSOR_2, SENSOR_MODE_PERCENT);
  OnFwd(OUT_A);
  OnFwd(OUT_C);
  start check;
}



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