Programming for vision related things

[The Doctor]

Originally Posted by EDesbiens

There is a RoboRealm voucher code on TIMS... That software is used to process images...

IIRC RoboRealm is windows-only.

In any case, vision processing is hard. Not only do you have to have enough usable info from the image, which is battered by changing light conditions and possibly some defensive robots, to be able to distinguish the location, angle, and distance of the target, you also have to make some assumptions about the physics of the situation. The program then has to calculate the trajectory of the ball, aim, and stay aimed as the bot is getting pushed around by defensive robots.

If you have no programming knowledge, it isn't likely that anyone here would have the time to teach you about the intricacies of vision processing. Not to mention that the top teams would likely not share any of this year's vision code (for obvious reasons). Unfortunately, you may be out of luck unless you find some competent programmers and finish in enough time (I'd estimate 2-3 weeks to completely test and perfect a vision solution).

It is for the last reason that our team has never had time to try vision. We usually spend all 6 weeks building, and not enough time practicing and perfecting things like this.