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Oh, what would be the advantage of a kinect over a regular old joystick?
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This is a very good question.
We will program our drive station to use both a XBOX controller and the Kinect. (Not at the same time) Based on years of using a joystick (Xbox controller) we know how it works. The Kinect interface will be a totally new adventure. Our goal will be to make a natural interface in which anyone can walk up and drive our robot. This may not be possible in 5 weeks, it may never be possible.
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Oh and good luck with autonomy with a kinect. Have fun trying to communicate with the cRio efficiently enough so that you can rotate the Kinect and not sacrifice precious clock cycles.
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The kinect on the field may not be a good choice for this game. We will find out by trying both a standard camera and the Kinect (depth sensor).
As for the cRio precious clock cycle, if we off load the visual processing to a laptop and use C++ in the cRio there will be lots of unused cRio cycles.