Reliability of Pixy Camera?

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Bpk9p4

2) Camera does not have great resolution so distance is a problem
3) Can not do any advanced shape detection. This is almost a must in FRC

over all i would not recommend it for FRC. It is a lot of fun to play with and to learn but just not great for FRC

I'm grabbing your last two points because I have concerns unrelated to pixy.

2) resolution and distance aren't really required for FRC, shooting from the defenses was very doable for us last year at reasonably low resolutions. I've also had good luck with the CMUcam3 in the past which was probably comparable resolution. Typically the first step I do in any image processing is to lower the resolution of the image so I can process it faster.

3) Last year we did 0 shape recognition, we relied almost exclusively on lowering the exposure on the camera.

I like to think our camera tracking was pretty reliable last year. I guess I'm just disagreeing that you really need high resolution and shape recognition.