Obstacle avoidance for boat?

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Scanning rangefinder

I had an idea for avoidance on ardupilot. Its so far working too easily, so I assume I’m missing something. Would anything bad happen if I used lua to set a servo with a range finder attached to it to scan 45 degree sectors with a second delay at each of the 8 points, then use the same lua script to change the rangefinder orientation parameter each time it changes position? I have tested this by manually changing the orientation of the rangefinder in parameters and it moves position so does an…