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Unread 01-03-2014, 22:54
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Originally Posted by Jeffy View Post
Using camera (or kinect) vision is seriously over complicating this problem. You only need to know distance to the wall. So, don't use something designed to give you distance, shapes and color.

If you are going for the hot goals though, vision could be helpful. I bet you could detect them without it though.
All I need is distance to the wall. But we don't have funds to get a fancy range sensor so we were thinking we could get that data from the kinect. We actually don't need any video at all
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