Are You Using A Camera To Align Their Shooter?

[FRC2501]

Originally Posted by alexpell00

After watching week 0.5 & 1 I was curious how many teams are actually using a camera to make sure they can shoot accurately. Thanks!

Our team has been able to get our robot shooting with "vision assist".

We use two USB webcams, one in the RIO and one in the Kangaroo. The Kangaroo has GRIP running on it and is set to broadcast the contours out to NetworkTables. From there our robot program (C++) on the RIO takes the numbers and adjusts our robot's drive motors to center the robot side to side. We then use a potentiometer on our shooter arm to adjust it to the right angle and then it fires. We have been making about 24/25 shots at the batter, and 20/25 from the defenses.

Our second camera in the RIO is so the drivers have some human vision on the field, because we haven't figured out how to publish video from the kangaroo to the driverstation.

We plan to get the robot shooting in auto during this week and hope to do good at 10,000 lakes in a few days!

[ThomasClark]

Originally Posted by FRC2501

Our second camera in the RIO is so the drivers have some human vision on the field, because we haven't figured out how to publish video from the kangaroo to the driverstation.

Use the "Publish Video" operation in GRIP, and the GRIP SmartDashboard extension with the IP set to the Kangaroo's IP address.