Using a Raspberry Pi for camera tracking

[Hjelstrom]

Originally Posted by cmrnpizzo14

3173 used the pi and had vision tracking software available but due to lack of test time it never made our competition bot. I believe that in the time since the season has ended our programmers have made it work quite successfully. I will try to get one of our programmers to post something about this.

The most impressive vision tracking I have seen in person was Aperture's (3142 I believe). I know they have a white paper up on it, I will post a link when I find it. They used the Kinect with a Pi I believe.

EDIT: Found the paper http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2692

You can also check out this paper: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2698?
I think if you're going to use the Kinect, you should use its depth sensor rather than just using it as an IR camera. The depth sensing it does is incredibly powerful (though it has some quirks too).