Driver Station Cameras (Q&A #7)
 

After my team discussed this and I posted here. I figured I should ask the Q&A if extending a pole up from the driver station and having a bird's eye view of the field would be legal. To my surprise, they said yes it is legal.

Q&A #7 Operator Console

This opens the doors for not only overhead views of the field for the driver but also for some amazing autonomous vision possibilities.

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Cue the periscope?
So how are we going to word this until we can get the gdc to allow us a tethered quad copter with a live video feed?

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Adding onto this: does anyone know if it is legal to mount a camera on the catwalk of a venue, process the image on a computer, then communicate via bluetooth to another computer, say a pi, on the robot or driver station?

By the rules: T4 Teams may not set up their own 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4GHz or 5GHz) wireless communication (e.g. access points or ad-hoc
networks) in the venue.

bluetooth is 802.15.1 by IEEE standards.

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That is illegal make sure to read the entire manual.

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Operator console is defined as what is behind the glass, yes? So you could communicate with a pi on your robot still, correct?

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Sorry but no, again read the entire manual.

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Well that's upsetting. Thank you for rule checking me

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This is great! I'm waiting for the team that will make a Mario Kart mini map display!

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Thanks for asking this! Really opens up some interesting possibilities.

Is Q&A generally flooded with questions that have already been answered earlier on? It's kind of annoying to have pages of the same question that were answered on the first page.

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It is the kind of system where you want to get in early so you don't have to dig through it all at once.

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Whelp, looks like I know what my in-between-build-season-and-first-event project is.

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But, did the GDC say it is Legal to use that camera video and feed it to the robot as a some sort of usable information?

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I think the OP is saying that the video would go to the drive station so they can see their robot behind a stack of totes.

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To quote the GDC, "There are no rules that prohibit this." I see no difference between this and the cheesy-vision that 254 used last year. All feed info to the robot originating with video.

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Except, I believe, cheesy-vision type systems are not allowed this year due to G21.

I see no problem with having the camera pointed on the field.

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I don't agree with that statement. cheesy-vision gave the robot information for autonomous, which goal is hot. This simply, potentially, gives the drivers a better look at the field. I could see this being used for some interesting autonomous routines, but I don't think that will happen.