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Posted: **15 Aug 2018, 08:57**

Hi all,

I am new to V-REP and currently I am trying to use it to develop a project about swarm robotics.

Could someone please shed some light about reading the value of the proximity sensor? I am using a ray type for the time being. Using the function listed below I am able to detect whether the proximity sensor has detected an object or not (if front_mid is greater than 0).

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front_mid=sim.readProximitySensor(frontMidSensor)

Can anyone please guide me towards obtaining a reading depending on the object's distance from the proximity sensor? Similar to a real life scenario.

Thanks and regards
Luke

Posted: **15 Aug 2018, 13:45**

For those interested, I managed to make this work.

r stands for result

d stands for distance

dP stands for detectedPoint

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r,d,dP=sim.checkProximitySensor(frontMidSensor,sim.handle_all)
print(r,d,dP)

Taken from the documentation:

result: -1 (error), 0 (not detected) or 1 (detected)

distance: distance from the sensor origin to the detected point. Is nil if result is different from 1

detectedPoint: position of the detected point relative to the sensor origin. Is nil if result is different from 1

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