Glossary Item Box
Robotics Common: Robotics Common Overview
![]() |
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio | Send feedback on this topic |
Contact Sensors
.png)
The Generic Contact Sensors service supports operations on sensors that have a pressed and unpressed state, such as bumpers or push-buttons.
The Generic Contact Sensors service provides the following operations:
| Operation | Description |
|---|---|
| Get | Returns the current state of the sensor service. |
| ContactSensorsReplace | Changes the state of a set of contact sensors or indicates when the sensors' state has changed. |
| ContactSensorUpdate | Updates or notifies an update to a contact sensor. |
ContactSensorsReplace returns the set (list) of contact sensors. ContactSensorUpdate provides the state of an individual sensor.
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HardwareIdentifier | int | The hardware port that the sensor uses. |
| Name | string | A descriptive identifier for the sensor. |
| Pose | Pose | The position and orientation of the sensor. |
| Pressed | Boolean | Indicates if the sensor is pressed (true) or not (false). |
| TimeStamp | DateTime | The timestamp of the sensor reading. |
Updated information might be available online in the MSDN Library page:
Contact Sensors
| See Also |
Robotics Common: Robotics Common Overview
© 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
.gif)