Proximity Sensor

Distance sensor to detect nearby objects.

This sensor can be used to determine which other objects are within a certain radius of the sensor. It performs its test based only on distance. The type of tracked objects can be specified using the Track property.

Configuration parameters for Proximity Sensor

You can set these properties in your scripts with <component>.properties(<property1>=..., <property2>=...).

  • Range (float, default: 100)
    The distance, in meters beyond which this sensor is unable to locate other robots.
  • Track (string, default: "Robot_Tag")
    The type of tracked objects. This type is looked for as game property of scene objects. You must then add a new game property to the objects you want to be detected by the proximity sensor.

Data fields

This sensor exports these datafields at each simulation step:

  • timestamp (float, initial value: 0.0)
    number of seconds in simulated time
  • near_objects (dict, initial value: {})
    A list of the tracked objects located within the given radius. The keys of the dictionary are the object names, and the values are the distances (in meters) from the sensor.
  • near_robots (dict, initial value: {})
    deprecated. Points to near_objects for compatibility reasons.

Interface support:

Services for Proximity Sensor

  • get_configurations() (blocking)

    Returns the configurations of a component (parsed from the properties).

    • Return value

      a dictionary of the current component’s configurations

  • get_local_data() (blocking)

    Returns the current data stored in the sensor.

    • Return value

      a dictionary of the current sensor’s data

  • get_properties() (blocking)

    Returns the properties of a component.

    • Return value

      a dictionary of the current component’s properties

  • set_property(prop_name, prop_val) (blocking)

    Modify one property on a component

    • Parameters

      • prop_name: the name of the property to modify (as shown the documentation)
      • prop_val: the new value of the property. Note that there is no checking about the type of the value so be careful
    • Return value

      nothing

  • set_range(range) (blocking)

    The service expects a float range (in meter), and modify the range used to detect objects around the proximity sensor.

    • Parameters
      • range: detection range, in meters
  • set_tracked_tag(tag) (blocking)

    The service allows to modify the kind of objects detected by the proximity sensor.

    • Parameters
      • tag: value of the Track property used to select detected objects.

Examples

The following examples show how to use this component in a Builder script:

from morse.builder import *

# adds a default robot (the MORSE mascott!)
robot = Morsy()

# creates a new instance of the sensor
proximity = Proximity()

# place your component at the correct location
proximity.translate(<x>, <y>, <z>)
proximity.rotate(<rx>, <ry>, <rz>)

robot.append(proximity)

# define one or several communication interface, like 'socket'
proximity.add_interface(<interface>)

env = Environment('empty')

Other sources of examples

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