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Re: Vision Targeting for Aerial Assist 2014

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Originally Posted by faust1706 View Post
Track the hot zone, the balls (calculate its speed and go to where it will be autonomously), track other robot and pass the ball so it will meet them in their path. Track opposing robot so you can autonomous move around them. Track the vision tape on the wall and index from that.

Not going to lie, this this very elementary stuff.
We at NewTek have spent years on vision tracking... check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqnwC3eHdZ0
This is merely tracking a primitive solid color rectangle, and I can say with 100% confidence there is nothing elementary about it. There is nothing elementary about figuring out all of the tricks needed to have that tracking in a real-time environment. If you do get around to tracking robots... please do like I did and post a demo of it in action. As Tim Jenison once said to me as I tried and failed... "real video is a dirty world". I admire your persistence and I hope you can pull it off... good luck!

I do have a few questions for you... what kind of tracking setup are you going to use (e.g. Raspberry pi, m1011, m1013 etc.)? Will it be on-board or over the network and processed on the driver station?

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