SRF235 Sensore ad ultrasuoni ad alta frequenza SRF235

Sensore ad ultrasuoni ad alta frequenza SRF235

La caratteristica principale di questo piccolo sensore e' l'angolo di rilevamento e' molto stretto, riesce quindi ad essere molto preciso.
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L'SRF235 e' un sensore ad ultrasuoni di ultima generazione. Grazie alla speciale capsula ad ultrasuoni, riesce ad avere un ampiezza di rlevazione inferiore a 15°, questo lo rende particolarmente selettivo e preciso. La capsula, inoltre, risulta molto ben protetta da polvere e umidita', questo contribuisce ad una lunga durata e una migliore precisione del sensore.
L'elevata frequenza di lavoro di 235Khz riduce notevolmente la massima distanza di rilevamento, a causa della resistenza opposta dall'aria.
Un altro fattore di cui tener conto nella scelta dell' SRF235, e' l'angolo di incidenza della lettura che non deve essere maggiore di 8-9? altriment non viene correttamente rilevato dal sensore e potrebbe anche generare false letture a causa di riflessioni di oggetti posti nella traiettoria.
Questo sensore risulta eccellente nel rilevamento di precisione di oggetti, anche piccoli, posti ad una distanza compresa tra 10 e 120 cm, puo' essere montato anche in posti angusti grazie al fascio di emissione ristretto e alla capsula singola anziche' doppia.
Per necessita' di letture di distanze maggiori e' consigliabile utilizzare i sensori ad ultrasuoni SRF08, SRF10 o SRF04; non e' da escludere un funzionamento combinato con l' SRF235 e uno di questi sensori.

 

Caratteristiche Tecniche:
Tensione Operativa 5V
Corrente Operativa Tipica 25mA
Frequenza 235 Khz
Portata 10cm - 1.2mt
Ampiezza campo visivo 15°
Unita'

Distanza in uS, mm o pollici

Comunicazione Protocollo I2C
Dimensioni 34 x 20 x H 19 mm


The SRF235 is a narrow beam ultrasonic ranger, with a beam width of just 15?. An industrial high frequency air coupled transducer operating at 235KHz is used for both Transmit and Receive. The beam patterns below show compare the 15? SRF235 with the 55? typical pattern of the SRF04.

SRF235 Beam Pattern

SRF04 Beam pattern

Limitations & Characteristics
235KHz ultrasound does not transmit as easily through air as 40KHz does, so the range of the SRF235 is limited to around 1 meter for normal objects out to a maximum of 1.2 meters for a large surface. The use of a single transducer for both transmit and receive means there is a blanking zone out to 10cm, so the effective range is 10cm to 1.2m. The 235KHz narrow 15? beam behaves more like light on a mirror than 40KHz sensors, so looking at a hard flat surface at an angle of more than 8? or 9? will not yield an echo from that surface. It may be that the reflected beam hits an object and bounces back. In this case the echo from the object will detected and the sonar will indicate the total range of sonar to flat surface + flat surface to object. The flat surface its self will be invisible to the sonar. Under the same circumstances, a 40KHz sensor such as the SRF04 would detect the flat surface - not the reflected object.

At an angle of just 9 degrees, the beam
does not reflect back to the sonar
Here there is an object in the path of the reflected
beam. The beam will bounce off the object and -
back via the flat surface to the sonar, which
will think there is an object off in the distance
in front of it.

Soft furnishings do not reflect well at 235KHz and might not be detected. Please be aware of these characteristics before considering the purchase of an SRF235.

The SRF235 detects hard round objects well, such as table and chair legs etc. This makes the SRF235 ideal for detailed local mapping around the robot, but not for longer range sensing. Using the SRF235 along side a 40KHz sonar, makes an excellent sensor combination.

Communication
Communication with the SRF235 ultrasonic rangefinder is via the I2C bus. This is available on popular controllers such as the OOPic, Stamp BS2p, PicAxe etc. as well as a wide variety of micro-controllers. To the programmer the SRF235 behaves in the same way as the ubiquitous 24xx series EEPROM's, except that the I2C address is different. The default shipped address of the SRF235 is 0xE0. It can be changed by the user to any of 16 addresses E0, E2, E4, E6, E8, EA, EC, EE, F0, F2, F4, F6, F8, FA, FC or FE, therefore up to 16 sonar's can be used.

Connections
The connections to the SRF235 are identical to the SRF08and SRF10 rangers. The "No Connection" pin should be left unconnected. It is actually the CPU MCLR line and is used once only in our workshop to program the PIC18F4220 on-board after assembly, and has an internal pull-up resistor. The SCL and SDA lines should each have a pull-up resistor to +5v somewhere on the I2C bus. You only need one pair of resistors, not a pair for every module. They are normally located with the bus master rather than the slaves. The SRF235 is always a slave - never a bus master. If you need them, I recommend 1.8k resistors. Some modules such as the OOPic already have pull-up resistors and you do not need to add any more.

Registers
The SRF235 appears as a set of 4 registers.

Location Read Write

0

Software Revision

Command Register

1

Unused (reads 0x80)

N/A

2

Range High Byte

N/A

3

Range Low Byte

N/A

Only location 0 can be written to. Location 0 is the command register and is used to start a ranging session. It cannot be read. Reading from location 0 returns the SRF235 software revision. The ranging lasts for 10mS, and the SRF235 will not respond to commands on the I2C bus whilst it is ranging.

Locations, 2 and 3, are the 16bit unsigned result from the latest ranging - high byte first. The meaning of this value depends on the command used, and is either the range in inches, or the range in cm or the flight time in uS. A value of 0 indicates that no objects were detected. A new ranging may be initiated as soon as you have the read the range from the last one - no delays are needed.

Commands
The are three commands to initiate a ranging (80 to 82), to return the result in inches, centimeters or microseconds. There is also a set of commands to change the I2C address.

Command Action
Decimal Hex
80 0x50 Ranging Mode - Result in inches
81 0x51 Ranging Mode - Result in centimeters
82 0x52 Ranging Mode - Result in micro-seconds
160 0xA0 1st in sequence to change I2C address
165 0xA5 3rd in sequence to change I2C address
170 0xAA 2nd in sequence to change I2C address

Ranging
To initiate a ranging, write one of the above commands to the command register and wait the required amount of time for completion and read the result. The echo buffer is cleared at the start of each ranging. The ranging lasts for 10mS, after this the range can be read from locations 2 and 3.

Checking for Completion of Ranging
You do not have to use a timer on your own controller to wait for ranging to finish. You can take advantage of the fact that the SRF235 will not respond to any I2C activity whilst ranging. Therefore, if you try to read from the SRF235 (we use the software revision number a location 0) then you will get 255 (0xFF) whilst ranging. This is because the I2C data line (SDA) is pulled high if nothing is driving it. As soon as the ranging is complete the SRF235 will again respond to the I2C bus, so just keep reading the register until its not 255 (0xFF) anymore. You can then read the sonar data. Your controller can take advantage of this to perform other tasks while the SRF235 is ranging.

LED
The red LED is used to flash out a code for the I2C address on power-up (see below). It also gives a brief flash during the "ping" whilst ranging.

Changing the I2C Bus Address
To change the I2C address of the SRF235 you must have only one sonar on the bus. Write the 3 sequence commands in the correct order followed by the address. Example; to change the address of a sonar currently at 0xE0 (the default shipped address) to 0xF2, write the following to address 0xE0; (0xA0, 0xAA, 0xA5, 0xF2 ). These commands must be sent in the correct sequence to change the I2C address, additionally, No other command may be issued in the middle of the sequence. The sequence must be sent to the command register at location 0, which means 4 separate write transactions on the I2C bus. When done, you should label the sonar with its address, however if you do forget, just power it up without sending any commands. The SRF235 will flash its address out on the LED. One long flash followed by a number of shorter flashes indicating its address. The flashing is terminated immediately on sending a command the SRF235.

 

Address Long Flash Short flashes
Decimal Hex
224 E0 1 0
226 E2 1 1
228 E4 1 2
230 E6 1 3
232 E8 1 4
234 EA 1 5
236 EC 1 6
238 EE 1 7
240 F0 1 8
242 F2 1 9
244 F4 1 10
246 F6 1 11
248 F8 1 12
250 FA 1 13
252 FC 1 14
254 FE 1 15

Take care not to set more than one sonar to the same address, there will be a bus collision and very unpredictable results.

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