kaarvannan
New Member
Hi all,
I have a rather unique requirement with regards to position sensing. I need to sense the position of a hand held device (kinda like the wii controller) in a 1^3 meter volume with very high accuracy (in micro meters). The device will be picked up and moved by hand, so encoders will not work. I was thinking if there is way to transmit somthing (IR, elctromagnetic waves or Ultrasonic waves over this 1^3 volume then, i can place a receiver or reflector of some sorts in the hand held device and make it work.
On the plus side, we can run wires to the hand held device, thus wireless communication is not needed and the whole thing will be controlled by labview or matlab running on a PC so there is a lot of computing power.
I am open to any idea you might have to accomplish this?
I have a rather unique requirement with regards to position sensing. I need to sense the position of a hand held device (kinda like the wii controller) in a 1^3 meter volume with very high accuracy (in micro meters). The device will be picked up and moved by hand, so encoders will not work. I was thinking if there is way to transmit somthing (IR, elctromagnetic waves or Ultrasonic waves over this 1^3 volume then, i can place a receiver or reflector of some sorts in the hand held device and make it work.
On the plus side, we can run wires to the hand held device, thus wireless communication is not needed and the whole thing will be controlled by labview or matlab running on a PC so there is a lot of computing power.
I am open to any idea you might have to accomplish this?