opencv a place to start

[chsahit]

If you are using the RPi I would suggest staying away from Java/Python, the overhead would make vision processing a pain. Try C++. A few years ago, MORT stripped down a laptop and put it on the robot, it's surprisingly straight forward and not as heavy as one might think. I believe there is a way to use network tables and actually do all your processing on the driver station itself. Just send the data from the robot to a client program on your DS, analyze it there, and send it back.
Feel free to message me about questions or if you want to see code!

[F22Rapture]

Originally Posted by chsahit

If you are using the RPi I would suggest staying away from Java/Python, the overhead would make vision processing a pain. Try C++. A few years ago, MORT stripped down a laptop and put it on the robot, it's surprisingly straight forward and not as heavy as one might think. I believe there is a way to use network tables and actually do all your processing on the driver station itself. Just send the data from the robot to a client program on your DS, analyze it there, and send it back.
Feel free to message me about questions or if you want to see code!

Not really true. I'm not sure about the Java bindings for OpenCV, but the Python bindings only have an overhead of something like 15%. All of the work is still being done in the same native code.