Kinect is Legal for Both Drive Station and Field Use (Here’s why)

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

It isn't all that bad to do this once you have the right tools. We have two at work that we have removed the entire base from.

And now here's a video of those Kinect's mounted to a robot to perform autonomous navigation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn93BS44Das

The processing overhead for the Kinect's is much lower than any stereo vision implementations I have heard of. This entire system runs on a pair of dual core 1.66GHZ Intel Atom motherboards, mounted on the robot and running off an unfiltered 12V DC in from the battery. It should be noted that the motors are MUCH smaller than FRC and the battery is much bigger so voltage dip is nowhere near what is seen on an FRC robot.