Tracking Rectangles with Java/C++

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Originally Posted by vinnie

My team is going to be putting a small Atom powered computer on our robot to do vision processing and other high-level functions. We are going to be using the javacv library to utilize OpenCV in Java. We experimented with vision processing on the cRIO last year, but we found that it was very slow and often lagged the rest of the robot functions. You can easily (I wrote a demo program in ~10 minutes) detect edges/contours with OpenCV and from there decide whether or not the contours make the rectangle you're looking for or not.

How exactly are you guys accomplishing that? Power connection, networking? Not sure how that would be done as we're also thinking of doing that.