CE-442 (Intro to Mobile Robotics) Sensors Exam with Q and A

CE-442 (Intro to Mobile Robotics) Sensors Exam with Q and A Proprioceptive Sensor ANSWER Measures the internal state of the robot Exteroceptive Sensor ANSWER Measures the external state of a robot (surroundings) Active Sensor ANSWER emits energy into the environment Passive Sensor ANSWER receives energy from the environment to make observations Simple Sensor ANSWER Provide limited data, and do not require much computational power Active or Passive Sensors ANSWER Determined by the mechanism used to extract data Simple or Complex Sensors ANSWER Determined the amount of processing the sensor data needs Robots benefit from different type of sensors to allow ANSWER Flexibility in the type of data and sensor fusion to allow multiple measurements from simple sensors to be averaged together for more accurate results Benefits of multiple sensors ANSWER Save power consumption, more accurate data by redundancy