Image processing.

[daniel_dsouza]

Hello everyone,

Last year, our team decided to send the images from the Axis camera through the DLink router, in order to save the cRIO some effort and improve the video qualtiy. In order to make this change, we had to modify the dashboard to get the images from the network, vs. the cRIO (I am not sure about this part). However, we lost the ability to process images. This gave me an idea, but have no idea how to implement it.

Would it be possible to send the images from the camera >> to the router >> to the dashboard where the images are viewed >> to some code built into the dashboard which recieves images and returns x,y coordinates >> back to the cRIO where the coordinates are proccessed and acted upon? If so, how could it be done?

The advantages would be that it puts the image proccessing on the driverstation, where it can run faster, and also make use of NI's machine vision library.

Our team uses Java for the robot environement, and has very little or no experience with Labview.

Thanks,
Daniel D.