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Originally Posted by SquishyIce
Thanks for the input. I realize that this is quite a leap, and I'm willing to work through that. As for looking around on CD, I did look at that thread but was really looking for more tutorial-esque style help (thus this thread). As for interfacing with the DS or robot, which would you consider the most efficient? I believe that keeping it on the robot would be simpler, though I may be wrong.
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There aren't many tutorials specifically for FRC just yet. I suspect we'll see a few show up starting this year and into next.
The elinux site linked above has a few tutorials but I won't claim any of them are great and most involve knowing the internals of linux to some degree. Key words to Google for are Jetson, OpenCV, Nvidia, TK1, Robotics, etc...
Believe me, I would love to point you at more specific resources but they just aren't out there at the moment that I'm aware of (not that I'm the arbiter of all things Jetson and FRC... trust me, I'm not even close).
As for efficiency. It all depends. Assuming you mount the camera on the robot and not on a pole over the driver station, the most efficient use of the Jetson is to put it on the robot and then connect to it from the RoboRIO for automated control. This way you never send data back over the field wireless to the Jetson and all of your processing is done on board the robot.
If instead, you were to opt for putting a camera above your driver station... then putting the Jetson in the driver station is probably your best bet.
I'm also hoping that Nvidia will release a new version of this board with their latest and greatest within the year but we shall see... Imagination and Intel are both making solid progress in the mobile GPU and GPGPU fields so I expect to have more options in the years to come... I suspect Nvidia ended up making these boards because they had a surplus of the chips for them but that's a whole different conspiracy theory.
If you run into specific problems then feel free to PM me and I'll get you help as best as I can. I do my best to monitor CD but these last few weeks are always killer.