Team 3142: Week 5 preview

[mathking]

We are using a BeagleBone with the Kinect. It is communicating with the cRIO over ethernet. It is finding the center of the backboard(s) as well as our distance from the wall and aspect ratio. We are hoping to get a whitepaper together on it at some point this spring, as well as answering questions at the Queen City Regional.

[Peyton Yeung]

Thought I'd give this thread a bump.

I was wondering how this robot performed in competition.

Did the kinect work well?

Peyton

[E1219]

We tried that for Rebound Rumble but me and our other main programmer couldn't get it running in time. We got the hardware working between a panda board and the Kinect all powered by the robot but we didn't have any image processing experience to get the software working in time.

[KingLinkTiger]

Originally Posted by Tubatroopa

Thought I'd give this thread a bump.

I was wondering how this robot performed in competition.

Did the kinect work well?

Peyton

From what I know the system never really worked properly. The targeting did not work properly and thus the only reason for the kinect to remain on the robot was to act as a camera for the driver station. 3142 did make it to the Quarterfinals at one of their competitions and they also made it to the Finals in their other regional.

Source: http://www.thebluealliance.com/team/3142/2012