Thread: Moving the robot automatically to follow camera tracking
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Re: Moving the robot automatically to follow camera tracking
My team is mounting the camera rigidly to the robot, without the servo mechanism. Then we turn the robot to center the target in the image. The distance (number of pixels) the centroid of the target blob is from the center of the frame is the error signal that is minimized by turning the robot. The advantage of this is improved performance in not having to wait for the servo loop.