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Originally Posted by coastertux
Sounds cool! How are you planning to navigate within boundaries such as a field and around objects and other robots? Wouldn't some lights (such as halogens) "blind" the camera?
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This is not for FIRST. As for things blinding the camera, they generally only seem to do so in a localized area, which makes the lights even more distinguishable. Sonar or IR sensors will be used for obstacle detection. As far as things that occlude the ceiling go, i can either restrict the thing to an environment where ther arn't any or i can use a lense with a very narrow DOF and ignore areas that are out of focus. If the ceiling signal is completely lost, encoder or intertial dead reckoning can be used until it is reaquired. This is probably just another fantasy of mine as i already have too many projects, but i do have all the parts except a power supply for the ITX board.