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Re: Game Hint #2

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Originally Posted by jerry w View Post
The delay from when the camera captures an image until it is displayed on the driver station varies between two and five seconds. Most drivers would find this to be infuriatingly slow.

However, with the processing power on the robot, the pattern matching, color detection, or pixel counting happens in a few hundred milliseconds. The robot reaction time with imaging processing is actually faster than the driver can react with full visibility of the field.

Though it might be fun to have the camera image at the driver station, it is unlikely to provide the driver any edge during the game.

jerry
It also states on page 2-5 of the FRC Programming Guide:

"You can send image data to the host computer or perform live front panel debugging only during development, not during the FRC competition."

So that pretty much makes official what you were saying is already fairly unreasonable. Only the image processing VIs.. as it should be!
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