Particular machine vision questions

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Colleagues,

I need to add some sort of vision to my robotics project. The mission
of the vehicle is similar to the robotic football – find an object
and move it to the given coordinates. The environment is a dry flat
lakebed. Currently I'm considering two types of vision – optical and
ultrasonic (laser rangefinder is on my wish list too, but it's too
expensive). So here are my questions:

Some time ago I've seen an add in the Nuts & Volts about a CMOS image
sensor/camera, which transfers the data out serially (but not by
USB)? Does anyone know who makes such a thing?

Have anyone read the article on ultrasonic phased arrays in the Servo
Magazine? Does it give a good practical advice for building the
ultrasonic vision cell? Is the article worth tracking down?

Thanks you!

Sincerely,
Nick

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The CMUCam, sold by Parallax and others, has a
CCD connected to an SX-48 processor. It provides
on-module color-blob following.

--- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Alexeev" <kender_a@y...>
wrote:
> Colleagues,
>
> I need to add some sort of vision to my robotics project. The
mission
> of the vehicle is similar to the robotic football – find an object
> and move it to the given coordinates. The environment is a dry flat
> lakebed. Currently I'm considering two types of vision – optical
and
> ultrasonic (laser rangefinder is on my wish list too, but it's too
> expensive). So here are my questions:
>
> Some time ago I've seen an add in the Nuts & Volts about a CMOS
image
> sensor/camera, which transfers the data out serially (but not by
> USB)? Does anyone know who makes such a thing?
>
> Have anyone read the article on ultrasonic phased arrays in the
Servo
> Magazine? Does it give a good practical advice for building the
> ultrasonic vision cell? Is the article worth tracking down?
>
> Thanks you!
>
> Sincerely,
> Nick