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Re: Camera Cycling And Angle

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Originally Posted by Denz
During the search mode, the camera does it's first sweep, and then when it moves back to make it's second sweep with a higher angle, the camera catches a glimpse of the light, but not enough to lock, so it restarts the search function from the beginning. This continues over and over, and the camera never locks! Any suggestions? Thanks.
See question fourteen of the CMUcam2 FAQ: http://kevin.org/frc/camera


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Originally Posted by Denz
Another questions as well. The tilt angle when taken does not vary enough to provide enough information for the trig functions to properly give distance. The angle intervals are too far spaced out. Any suggestions? Any more accurate ways of finding distance? Thanks again.
You need to mount the camera as low as possible.

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