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Unread 11-03-2012, 18:34
aldenm aldenm is offline
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Field lighting interference with camera tracking

My team has been having some issues with the field lighting interfering with the camera. We have an LED array around our camera that is being used to track the vision targets on the backboards. At the Autodesk Oregon Regional, we were shooting very accurately on the practice field without the field lighting, but whenever we played a match, the robot would only shoot a couple times and make only 1 or 2 baskets. I'm curious if any other teams are having this problem and how they are solving it. I'm on electrical on my team, so I don't know much about programming. I have heard that this has been mainly a programming issue, but I am curious if there are any types of LEDs that are effective, or any other tips with camera placement that could resolve this problem. Also, if anyone has programming tips, I can pass those on to our team's programmers.