[billylo]

Our programmers use RoboRealm this year and love it, compared to Java programming (on robot with cRIO) or offboard (on SmartDashboard). The benefit incudes:

- interactive nature of the programming environment makes it very easy to tune the filters to get results faster. No code, compile, build, deploy cycles.

- rich built-in constructs with good help to help novice understand vision processing concepts

- VB and C-like scripting engine included to do more complex decisioning if necessary

- very helpful support and quick turnaround for bug fixes.

Overall, I find it very well suited for FRC style of work because you can visualize the results of each change immediately and you can experiment with ideas very quickly. Yes, OpenCV is more powerful and more efficient, but the tool does not fit the job as well, IMHO.

We use a cheap Netbook with Atom N2600 processor on board; and it's fast enough (approx. 10 fps with our RoboRealm code running).

Hope this helps.