Programmable near-infrared ranging system

Patent · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:867056

Everett, Jr., Hobart R. ^[1]

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1. (San Diego, CA)

A high angular resolution ranging system particularly suitable for indoor plications involving mobile robot navigation and collision avoidance uses a programmable array of light emitters that can be sequentially incremented by a microprocessor. A plurality of adjustable level threshold detectors are used in an optical receiver for detecting the threshold level of the light echoes produced when light emitted from one or more of the emitters is reflected by a target or object in the scan path of the ranging system.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by Secretary of Navy (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4851661
• OSTI ID: 867056
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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