Need some help about position detection using Arduino

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Hi all,

I'm not too good in English so please ignore if I make something wrong in spelling.

I am new to Arduino, and now studying to find a way which can detect the position of things within an area using Arduino. I read some documents on the internet, most of them were talking about using some kinds of distance sensor to determine and detect the object's position, or using traking camera. I prefer to the first method and want to do the following things:

  • detect the position of an object within a fixed area with Arduino
  • transport those data to a computer, and make them configurable. For example, if I configure the data on the computer (such as the value of co-ordinate of those things, or the position of a point in a window that simulate the real area), the real thing will also move base on what I am editting on the computer.

Any suggestion idea about this would be appreciated.

Thank you for your reading.

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Some previous post that might have info.

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=object+detection&btnG=search&domains=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.arduino.cc&sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fforum.arduino.cc&gfe_rd=ssl&ei=bXRDVvbdBMLD-AWzgqWwAw

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This new indoor positioning system by Pozyx is claimed to work, but it is expensive.

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Thank you so much for your consideration!