Where is the multi object tracking code for the RC?

[Kevin Watson]

Originally Posted by maniac_2040

Our team is coming across the same dilemma. However, do you really need four wheel drive to do a turn in place? My team is using a forklift style drive this year(two drive wheels in the front, steering wheels in the back). The engineers of my team told me that we can turn in place by just turning the steering wheels almost perpedicular to the front and spinning the front wheels in opposite directions(ie- to turn left in place, spin the left wheel backwards and the right wheel forward). I am sceptical of this method. Will it really work?

It's more complex mechanically, and the software will be a pain, but once dialed-in, it should work fairly well.

Originally Posted by maniac_2040

But also, I have an idea of how to determine the orientation of the rack/vision target from information from the camera and would like to know the feasibility of it. It draws on the fact that the blob size is proportional to the angle that your approaching the target from. the blob size will be "thinner" if you're approaching from an angle, and larger if you're approaching head on. Do you think it would be possible to determine the angle of the rack based on this information, and the distance?

It will be hard to do this because you have too few pixels to work with. As an example, from the closest starting distance possible (~180 inches), the light at 0 degrees only lights-up 12 pixels, at 25 degrees 8 pixels are illuminated. I think you're better off with a scoring mechanism that will work over greater range of angles.

-Kevin