[ganchara]

Originally Posted by ganchara

All right, so, I have gotten a ton of really helpful information, now what I would like is some help figuring out how I should put it all together.
Here is what I am hoping to do, in its entirety:

Use the camera on the robot to find the vision target,

Export images from the camera to either our driverstation computer or a laptop mounted on the robot,

Use the NI-Vision software to find where the rectangles are,

Take the rectangles found by the NI-Vision software and calculate the distance from and angle off of perpendicular with the backboards,

Using these distances and angles, which will be updated throughout the course of the robots movement, calculate how our joystick would need to be moved in order to move our robot with a short range shooter up to the backboards,

And finally, send these theoretical joystick controls back to the cRIO and use them to move the robot to where it needs to go.

I am starting to get how to get the images from the camera, I can theoretically do the calculations on the angles and movement required, but what I still need to figure out is how to create the virtual joystick and then how to send the virtual joystick controls to the robot, as well as how to make the program I write run on whatever computer I decide it needs to run on.

During the course of the rest of today, I got a fair amount of work done on figuring out how do deal with the positioning calculations, but I am still having a bunch of trouble figuring out how to both actually run the code that gets written, as well as how I will want to send the processed data back to the robot.