Vision Tracking Lighting Idea

[catacon]

Originally Posted by thaagbe

Could you elaborate on this? Like actually placing the kinect *ON* the robot and using its camera. If yes then could you please tell us how my friend and I want to program this into our robot. Thank You

So....the Kinect projects an Infrared "beam" into the scene and depending on which driver/SDK you use(OpenNI, libfreenect, Microsoft SDK), you can get the IR feed directly from the Kinect. This feed is basically a grayscale image that represents the intensity of the Infrared received by the Kinect. Cool things happen with retroflective material (like that used on the Rebound Rumble targets). As for putting the Kinect on the robot...I dunno...Y U NOT KNOW????!!!!!!!

[Mr. Lim]

Originally Posted by catacon

So....the Kinect projects an Infrared "beam" into the scene and depending on which driver/SDK you use(OpenNI, libfreenect, Microsoft SDK), you can get the IR feed directly from the Kinect. This feed is basically a grayscale image that represents the intensity of the Infrared received by the Kinect. Cool things happen with retroflective material (like that used on the Rebound Rumble targets). As for putting the Kinect on the robot...I dunno...Y U NOT KNOW????!!!!!!!

Yes, and it should be just as simple as plugging the Kinect into the USB port on your cRIO...

[catacon]

Originally Posted by Mr. Lim

Yes, and it should be just as simple as plugging the Kinect into the USB port on your cRIO...

Exactly. Should be cake. ;-)

[alancop]

You are allowed to put a laptop on your robot, so theoretically, you could put a kinect and a small netbook on your robot, then connect it to the bridge and run a labview VI to send the information to your cRio.

Or even just use one of these http://mbed.org/ on your robot, and use the USB host and Ethernet interface to talk to the cRio, that would be lighter, but much harder to accomplish.