On Board Computer

[Brian Selle]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Yup. We grabbed one frame, processed it in about 100ms, then fed the result into a control loop using the gyro. We were even able to pull out our lateral position on the field to shoot off center if we were on the side of the key, allowing us to have an accurate alliance bridge autonomous mode. We did this spending 0 dollars and 0 hours on an external computer.

That's exactly what we did except we fed turret position. The cRIO CPU would spike to around 80-90% for a moment during the image processing but since nothing else was happening during the shot sequence it was never an issue. Never saw the need for continuous image processing or offloading to an external CPU...