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Re: pic: Kinect Path Planning

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That's really neat. What libraries are you using to process the image, and what are you doing the processing on?

This could be really useful for an autonomous mode where you need to make decisions on where to go as you drive like in 08, but without somebody signaling the robot.
We're using the OpenCV libraries.

We're trying to implement A* path planning (what many games such a League of Legends uses) to autonomously transverse between objects.

This project was thought of mostly out of interest and not for a specific aspect of the competition. We did upon early stages of this project discover that it'd be neat to have a high speed drive train that could autonomous move between say the feeder station in 2013 to a designated point on the field, avoiding the pyramids and moving robots. The issue with that is: would the path planning program run faster than the human mind can process the environment? If so then great, but if not, then why incorporate it?
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