Autonomous: CMUCam or dead reckoning?

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

Thanks much guys! We are completly devoid of programming knowledge and anything helps! I was wondering about the object getting bigger thing. I had asked a mentor about it, but they had thought that we couldn't do it.
Obviously it's possible!

I've been focusing on using a positioning system, a range sensor to detect range from 3"-60" and just using the CMUcam for color... but when the positioning system went out the window, I found and was pretty quickly able to program the camera to do the object width trick. If you run into any issues, feel free to send me a PM or an e-mail. If you read through the coding section of the manual I talked about, it should explain pretty well how to make your code retrieve the data from the camera you need, then all you need to code is how to work with it (telling the robot to turn to find the objects, moving an arm up and down at the right time, etc.). I hope this helps.