The question comes down to how you are going to power that on board computer. The rule right now is:
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The only legal source of electrical energy for the Robot during the competition is one MK ES17-12 12VDC non-spillable lead acid battery, or one EnerSys NP 18-12 battery, as provided in the 2012 KOP. This is the only battery allowed on the Robot.
Batteries integral to and part of a COTS computing device are also permitted (i.e. laptop batteries), provided they’re only used to power the COTS computing device.
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So does this mean that a laptop battery can exist on the robot? If no, the kinetic is out unless someone would like to write a driver for it and somehow interface with the cRIO (no usb and the usb module is storage only right now...)
The other thing is cost. Is the value of the laptop going to put the robot over the limit?
With these in mind 706 is most likely not going to pursue using the kinect and instead stay with our trusted webcam vision and target tracking.