Using Vex Brain as FRC Coprocessor

[Rickertsen2]

Originally Posted by Qbranch

This year's processor could most definitely handle 2 CMUcams, I think you would run out of UARTs if you had 3 cameras. Although, you could overcome this with using the ever-famous bit banging (this can be done up to around 9600 baud, yes I know its slower, but it would still give you a few updates per second).

I would really like it if we did have 2 CMUcams, we could find our absolute position on the field (X,Y coords) using stereoscopic vision off the target.

It'd be nice if maybe Cognix or NI would donate their packaged vision systems and put them in the KOP... that'd be sweet to have geometric pattern matching, great image processing, and don't forget the high frame rates...

So, if we were to have a co processor unit for machine vision in the KOP, I'd like it to be DSP based ...hint hint to IFI... but it would be better yet to get one of the vision systems i listed above

That would be awesome but also the most expensive item in the entire KOP. Far more expensive than even the RC