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Unread 10-05-2006, 01:19
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Red face very weird camera movement!

Hello, to everybody here. I haven't found anything similar so i suppose that i am doing something very wrong. But i can't figure it out. So the thing is that i decided to install the CMUCam2 ver.7. All good, i read all documents included, about calibration, serial commands and mounting. Now my problem is that i managed to make it track but it tracks at the blistering speed of 2.5/4 fps and the servos move in small steps. It more like vibrating towards the target than servo-ing in that direction. I tried changing the step for the servos...but still nothing. Well if i am changing the step it's just going to vibrate at a lower frequency while is connected to the LabView's CMU GUI, and also with the java one. As i go back to the demo mode, it starts again with the movement in very violent and small steps. If anybody can help me, please do, because i am trying to fix this for 2 days, and i don't have anymore hair left. I tried using both color spaces, both line modes, different settings for color, gains and other controls, but still no difference in movement. I am thinking that it should go faster because i saw a video with the CMUCam2 v.1 and it was moving really fast and smooth. The camera in the video was on demo mode...and that is how i want to use it for the moment.

Last edited by graphite : 10-05-2006 at 01:19. Reason: a few typos..:P