paper: ZebraVision 3.5 – Team 900

[ForeverAlon]

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ZebraVision 3.5 – Team 900 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/3179?) by ForeverAlon

[ForeverAlon]

Zebravision 3.5 is Team 900's offseason project to integrate the StereoLabs ZED (https://www.stereolabs.com/) camera with the Jetson TK1 DevKit and ZebraVision 3.0 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137374&highlight=zebravision+3.0) code. With the help of StereoLabs we successfully used the ZED sterescopic camera to make our bin recognition and localization code from last year more accurate. We consider this a great start to the area of localization and mapping in FRC. This paper details what we did and how we did it, as well as offering a tutorial so that other teams can use this application. All source code is public and in team 900's 2015 Vision Code Repository (https://github.com/FRC900/2015VisionCode) on GitHub. The code specifically relating to this whitepaper is in a separate branch (the "zed" branch). If you have any questions please post here and someone who worked on this will respond.

[marshall]

Video from Rumble in the Roads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQVaBchTa7s

[slibert]

Zebravision 3.5 is Team 900's offseason project to integrate the StereoLabs ZED (https://www.stereolabs.com/) camera with the Jetson TK1 DevKit and ZebraVision 3.0 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137374&highlight=zebravision+3.0) code. With the help of StereoLabs we successfully used the ZED sterescopic camera to make our bin recognition and localization code from last year more accurate. We consider this a great start to the area of localization and mapping in FRC. This paper details what we did and how we did it, as well as offering a tutorial so that other teams can use this application. All source code is public and in team 900's 2015 Vision Code Repository (https://github.com/FRC900/2015VisionCode) on GitHub. The code specifically relating to this whitepaper is in a separate branch (the "zed" branch). If you have any questions please post here and someone who worked on this will respond.

Excellent - thanks for making this available. Awesome!

[marshall]

One more update. We weren't sure if we were going to get to announce this or not but we are! Stereolabs has generously agreed to provide a discount to ALL FRC teams on the ZED. Similar to other FRC discounts though (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138460), I can't tell you the amount but what I can say is that the fair market value for the camera is within the price cap for COTS items per the 2015 rules. Email Stereolabs support if you're interested: support@stereolabs.com

[slibert]

One more update. We weren't sure if we were going to get to announce this or not but we are! Stereolabs has generously agreed to provide a discount to ALL FRC teams on the ZED. Similar to other FRC discounts though (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=138460), I can't tell you the amount but what I can say is that the fair market value for the camera is within the price cap for COTS items per the 2015 rules. Email Stereolabs support if you're interested: support@stereolabs.com
Wow, thanks for removing the one barrier to adopting the Zed stereo camera technology for use on a FIRST robot - really appreciate your working with Stereolabs to enable this!