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Re: Clarification of Visual System Rules

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Originally Posted by Greg McKaskle View Post
The reason I mention this phenomenon, is that if you see a ring of LED color, and a white interior where the retroreflective tape is, it means you have too much light. Since the tape reflects 600X as much light as white paint, this is easy to do.
Our initial tests of having the robot detect the retroreflector showed exactly this effect. The final bitmap of recognized color displayed a perfect silhouette of the target surrounded by a halo of "match". We put a diffuser over our LED to eliminate the spotlight effect and it works much better now.