Camera on robot with monitor on controls.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by EricH

If you want a Halo type system, petition FIRST to allow camera feedback, because it isn't legal to have a camera send images back.

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So you can get feedback, but according to <R64>, it must come through the radio modem. Camera broadcasts must be a decoration (specifically a non-functional decoration), and I would say that if it goes to your OI for driver feedback, it is not a non-functional decoration, it is a sensor and must fit within cost restraints and be programmed as a sensor.

Actually, that would not appear to be correct. There is no generic rule against cameras. There is also no requirement that camera
broadcast only be from decorations. The constraints cited prevent communication pathways parallel to those provided by the IFI-provided radio modems. Please read Bongle's post prior to yours. He has the right idea. It would appear to be entirely within the rules to have a camera on board the robot and pass the images back to the Operator Interface for display where they could then be accessed through the dashboard port and displayed on an attached laptop computer - IF you can find a way to stuff the images through the provided data link.

-dave