Wireless perimeter

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Not sure where to put this. I’m wondering if there is anything out there that you can use to “trace” a perimeter, which gets relayed back to the robot, and the robot stays in said perimeter? Kind of like a pen, or beacon, replacing the buried undergound perimeter wire.

Shorty

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@Shorte4130 Welcome to the RobotShop Community. Common ways of denoting a perimeter have included:

  • Physical barrier (where the robot uses physical or non-contact sensors to detect walls or cliffs)
  • Magnetic barrier (like the RobotShop Perimeter Wire Kit)
  • Light barriers (laser normally, for example what’s used in many industrial locations)
  • GPS (outdoor using the GPS satellite system)
  • GPS (Indoors using one of several methods like acoustic: Indoor Localization - RobotShop)
  • Line sensors
  • Others (depends on what you can install)

It really depends on the environment and what you want the robot to do and why.

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GPS would be best then, more is there a way to “draw” the perimeter in?

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It will come down to the software you create. Some complex flight controllers have something of a “virtual GPS-based fence”, but if you create one yourself your code needs to be able to differentiate coordinates “within” the perimeter vs “outside”.