Field lighting interference with camera tracking

[fsgond]

We attempted to fix this problem this year. We have yet to be at a regional, but we have had great success with it in our shop. Mainly we filter out the visible spectrum. We have a large IR floodlight and a camera in a blacked out box with an IR filter on the front. The retro reflective tape reflects the IR very well, and all we see on the camera is the 4 glowing backboards. This made coding very easy, since there was very little noise to filter out. The only problem that we did have was the sun. We have scoped out the regionals that we are going to and the sun should not be a problem, so I think we are golden.