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Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You

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Originally Posted by Vikesrock View Post
Why not use a single camera with a tilt mount? You could either try to find a mount height that allows for a single angle that will detect balls and another angle to target or you could determine a range of tilt values to scan over in each mode.
Ball detection was talked about in this thread:

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...highlight=ball

My thinking is by having a camera at the ball level, it would greatly reduce if not eliminate the shadow issue, allowing you to use the findEllipse method.

one design i did see which is a median between the two is putting the camera on a pneumatic, lower position for being at the ball level, top position for being high enough to see the goal.
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