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Originally Posted by Donut
I don't know of anyone ever having a problem with the processors. I know we ran out of code space last year (code, not variable), but with the quadrupling of the space this year we were fine (all our tracking code and everything took up about 1/3 the code space).
6 sonars was just a funny idea I was throwing around before, they'd be spaced out at 60 degree intervals on a full circle so as to allow an updated complete view of the field every half second or so.
A few sonars and Sharp sensors might be better, but I know we'd need more than 1 sonar (all the Sharp sensors have too limited a range for what I was thinking of).
I think Dave's going to give us all 3 cameras next year from that statement.
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This year's processor could most definitely handle 2 CMUcams, I think you would run out of UARTs if you had 3 cameras. Although, you could overcome this with using the ever-famous bit banging (this can be done up to around 9600 baud, yes I know its slower, but it would still give you a few updates per second).
I would really like it if we did have 2 CMUcams, we could find our absolute position on the field (X,Y coords) using stereoscopic vision off the target.
It'd be nice if maybe Cognix or NI would donate their packaged vision systems and put them in the KOP... that'd be sweet to have geometric pattern matching, great image processing, and don't forget the high frame rates... (and yes I know this is extrememly expensive, but I can dream can't I?
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So, if we were to have a co processor unit for machine vision in the KOP, I'd like it to be DSP based ...hint hint to IFI... but it would be better yet to get one of the vision systems i listed above
