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Blade Sensors

Leon Santen edited this page Feb 11, 2020 · 18 revisions

The blade sensors are ultrasonic sensors that sense the amount of dirt accumulated in the bucket.

Entire System Schematic

Electric

Protoboard Schematic

Mechanical

Originally, we sought to fabricate the sensor mounts by water-jet-cutting sheet metal and bending it into the shapes shown below. Upon further exploration, however, we decided to discard the sheet metal design and use 80/20 bars instead. An 80/20 frame will come in very handy as it will allow us to slide the sensors along the tractors x and y-axis.

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