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- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Path: sparky!uunet!mdisea!uw-coco!nwnexus!ole!ssave
- From: ssave@ole.cdac.com (The Devil Reincarnate)
- Subject: Re: Tracking the position of a diode in 3space
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.010237.6001@ole.cdac.com>
- Organization: CDAC, WA
- References: <1durunINNc91@coyote.cs.ubc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:02:37 GMT
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- In article <1durunINNc91@coyote.cs.ubc.ca> harrison@cs.ubc.ca (James Harrison) writes:
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- >We have an application for the tracking of the position of a person in
- >a larger room with little or no hardware carried by the person being
- >tracked. What we would ideally like to do is know the position of the
- >person in a large room (x, y).
- >
- >Anyone done this? Know it can/can't be done?
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- Try the IR movement detectors. A sharp enough definition would give an X-Y-Z
- position if the three detectors were placed on two adjacent walls and the ceiling.
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- -S
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- >James Harrison@cs.ubc.ca `RPCing as fast as the network will let me.'
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