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Unread 05-01-2009, 09:28
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Re: camera / vision system too laggy

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Originally Posted by martin417 View Post
What we did find though, was that the vision system (at least through Labview) was very laggy. It was at least 1/2 to 1 second behind reality at all times. As is, this would be useless for controlling a launcher. Has anyone found a way around this limitation?
What you're seeing is delayed between getting from the robot to the laptop you're programming from. The actual robot controller "sees" what you see before it bothers sending the picture over to the laptop.
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