Proximity sensors for vertical avoidance

ArduCopter Copter 4.6
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Has anybody worked on using a tilted 360 degree proximity sensor for vertical avoidance and/or rangefinding?

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Do you mean scanning on the vertical plane?

I don’t think we support this kind of configuration natively.

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Pretty much, Iike in some mapping applications but couldnt see it in Ardupilot. So wanted to ask if somebody was working on it or has worked on it

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Isn’t there a parameter to define orientation? Maybe using some orientation out of them is a hacky way?

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I dont think proximity sensors have orientation settings like rangefinders where you can have readings in the vertical plane. Proximity sensors have 1 or -1 for installing it up or down but the scan is horizontal still.

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