Hi Group.
Im into making an angle detection system with a arduino. It will work with an ir led iluminating some ir photo recievers. With an pin blocking the light I can calculate the position of the pin.
Hereby making a cheap anmgle detection system.
I need a IR resistor that I can put on my adc to determine the amount of IR hitting the sensor. But intil now the ones i have found not suitable. I think they are made for IR communication and has a steap slope (allmost on/of).
Anyone know of a IR reciever that has a more linear curve? Just like a ofd fashioened LDR.
If there is also visible light you might need a filter. An IR phototransistor or photodiode is usually optimized for IR but not completely insensitive to other wavelengths.
Wawa
Here is a quick sketch of the setup
Let me explain.
• The base is fixed, and houses 2 LED receivers, so I can read the intensity of the IR light hitting them.
• The base also has a pin bearing that holds the arm I want to measure the angle to. This pin has 2 purposes.
It acts as a bearing for the swing motion of the arm.
It casts a shadow from the IR transmitter, so the receivers will never get full exposure (at the same time) from the transmitter.
• By reading the intensity of the light the light ratio of the 2 sensors should give me an idea of the arm angle.
It might need a little fiddling and LUT correction to get it accurate, but that is OK. I basically just need to keep the arm close to neutral angle. The whole assembly cam be wrapped away from direct sunlight, or I can make readings with the emitter off, to compensate for ambient light levels.
Does it make sense?
Instead of having IR receivers with an on/off characteristics I would like to have some that could give me a range of light values, so I can better calculate the arm position. Ideally a LDR resistor with a restince of 1K-1M ohm would be ideally. I could just adc the values easy without need for any instrument amplifier. But I cannot really figure ouw what component to use,
