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Re: Demystifying autonomous...

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Originally Posted by kamocat View Post
The dashboard uses "Get camera image on PC".
I can't find anywhere in the code that it *says* it takes 1000ms to happen, but I tested it, and I think that's how long it turned out to be. This may be on purpose, seeing as they were worried last year about the bandwidth it would incur.
We definitely had a dashboard image that updated MUCH faster than this (Labview on both robot and Dashboard). Unfortunately our camera was slightly skewed relative to the robot and fixing it was not a priority compared to other issues that cropped up at competition.

When I talked with the 16 drivers at Midwest, they said they used the camera feed pretty heavily. Based on the success of that robot I would say it is certainly possible to use the dashboard camera to good effect.
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