Cameras (+IMUs)

[btcshields6]

Firstly, thanks for your long and detailed response. And thanks for the link gbear605.

Second, even before I got to your questions I began to be a little more wary of the possibility of implementing 4 cameras...I hadn't thought of having to mess with some of those code libraries. I'm a Labview user by the way.

Your questions:

One camera will be attached to a rotating mounted shooter, and will be tasked with tracking the high goals and lining up shots. If it works properly during practice, odds are we won't ever need to view its feed. The other three cameras are for driver awareness. We're a little concerned about being able to see our short robot across two lines of defenses and properly manipulate it. The cameras would be able to provide the driver with front and side views. I'd planned on only streaming one at a time, and switching between them with the left and right bumpers.

The others seem more rhetorical, so I guess I won't really answer them here...thank you for bringing them up though. They are certainly things I should think about.

I'm wondering about using one camera, mounted on top of the robot, on a pan/tilt servo mount. I could program buttons to rotate to preprogrammed positions, instead of using a joystick. That way the driver could take quick glances to the left and right if necessary. That seems to be less work altogether, and provide an almost equal amount of functionality to the driver, which as you suggest, he/she may not need.