Help To Select Sensor

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Hi!
We are from Instituto La Salle Florida, a school in Argentina. At this moment we’re building a sumobot in order to compete in our national robot league. To achieve our objectives we need to contact the best enterprises.

We need to know which are the best laser sensor for sumobot.

The sumobot will be affected by:

  • mechanical vibrations
  • natural light indoor
  • impacts
  • ambient sound
    (pitch diameter: 154cm)

We were considering using vl53l0x sensor but we need hear opinions from a experimented/engineering.

Thanks in advance,
Sumo La Salle

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Hi @Sumo and welcome to our forum!

You have an interesting project.

It seems that not much of our community members have used such a sensor, since no one left a comment :slight_smile:

Were you able to choose correct sensor in the end?

Thank you.

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@Sumo Welcome to the RobotShop Community.

Regarding the sensor: VL53L0X - Time-of-Flight ranging sensor - STMicroelectronics

  • mechanical vibrations
    It’s a digital sensor, so provided there’s nothing to cause a loss of signal, it will measure whatever it’s pointing at, at the frequency you set. You can always average a few readings and ignore values which are unreasonably higher or lower.

  • natural light indoor
    It’s a laser (as opposed to infrared) and the manufacturer advertises “higher immunity to ambient light”, so not completely immune.

  • impacts
    Same as mechanical vibrations

  • ambient sound
    How might this have an impact on a laser?

Products which use the sensor (or similar):
https://www.robotshop.com/en/catalogsearch/result/?q=vl53l0x&order=relevance&dir=desc

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