Worried about cRIO CPU usage when using vision

[the man]

What if the laptop was only used for processing the image to find out the distance of the target rectangle, but you did not stream any thing back to your driver-station?

[mwtidd]

Originally Posted by the man

What if the laptop was only used for processing the image to find out the distance of the target rectangle, but you did not stream any thing back to your driver-station?

The rectangle detection algorithms are the expensive process. I would advise trying to think of ways to locate the target that wouldn't require opencv.

For example I am looking at the rectangle as two parallel lines. The distance to the hoop can be determined based on the lines and your robots heading. In my case I'm using the kinect but that's more to limit the amount of field calibration that needs to be done.