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Towards a More Accurate Time of Flight Distance Sensor to Be Applied in a Mobile Robotics Application

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Proceedings TEEM 2022: Tenth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM 2022)

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In this paper, it is presented a field of view analysis of a time of flight sensor, that will be applied in a mobile robotics application. The sensor was configured in order to obtain a tradeoff between reactiveness and accuracy. It was used a microcontroller development board to acquire data and a manipulator to perform the movements, assuring repeatability and accuracy in the data acquisition process. The results of this paper will be used as an input to a simulation, in order to assist in the development of a mobile robotics application and also to be applied in educational contexts.

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This work has been supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope: UIDB/05757/2020.

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  1. CeDRI - Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, Polytechnic Institute of Bragaņca, Bragança, Portugal

    Laiany Brancalião, Mariano Alvarez & José Gonçalves

  2. University of León, Campus de Vegazana, 24071, León, Spain

    Laiany Brancalião & Miguel Á. Conde

  3. University of Porto, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Paulo Costa

  4. INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Paulo Costa

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Brancalião, L., Alvarez, M., Conde, M.Á., Costa, P., Gonçalves, J. (2023). Towards a More Accurate Time of Flight Distance Sensor to Be Applied in a Mobile Robotics Application. In: García-Peñalvo, F.J., García-Holgado, A. (eds) Proceedings TEEM 2022: Tenth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality. TEEM 2022. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0942-1_121

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