Speed of the camera

[keen101]

One idea to improve the speed would be to add a separate microprocessor to pre-process the data before sending it to the cRIO.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by keen101

One idea to improve the speed would be to add a separate microprocessor to pre-process the data before sending it to the cRIO.

And how do you plan on sending the data to the cRIO?

You are not allowed (this year) to tap into the ethernet port on the camera side nor are you allowed to use the serial port (*SIGH*).

[StevenB]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

And how do you plan on sending the data to the cRIO?

You are not allowed (this year) to tap into the ethernet port on the camera side nor are you allowed to use the serial port (*SIGH*).

You could use a couple of digital IO pins as a serial port. It's been done before...

I observed (on the browser-based camera GUI) that making the image slightly out of focus improved the frame rate. I'm not sure if this is something you would want to do in competition or not.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by StevenB

You could use a couple of digital IO pins as a serial port. It's been done before...

Hmmm, I wonder what the transmission rate of the DIO pins are .....

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

Hmmm, I wonder what the transmission rate of the DIO pins are .....

The GPIO inputs are sampled at 173KHz according to the GDC. Don't know about output rate (probably the same?).

[TheDominis]

My code can process 1000 640x480 images per second.

EDIT: I'm sorry. ~.00012 seconds was the time difference. It's actually about 10000 images at 160x120. I'll post the time for 640x480 tomorrow.

-TheDominis

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by TheDominis

My code can process 1000 640x480 images per second.

I'm curious to know what your code is doing with the image, and what information it provides to the rest of the program when it has done its processing. What language is it written in, and would you consider sharing it?

[TheDominis]

I won't share it. I'm using C++ and my code provides accurate data to be used by our cannon.

-TheDominis

[Zultraranger]

Originally Posted by TheDominis

My code can process 1000 640x480 images per second.

EDIT: I'm sorry. ~.00012 seconds was the time difference. It's actually about 10000 images at 160x120. I'll post the time for 640x480 tomorrow.

-TheDominis

Pics or it didn't happen.

[Robopanda6]

WE NEED HELP!

My team is testing it's camera and it sees the colors just fine. The problem we are having is that even the camera sees the color it won't track the color using the servos. Does anyone know what's going on?

[Greg McKaskle]

Make sure the servo channels match your wiring, make sure the channels you are using have jumpers, make sure your RSL light on your digital sidecar is steady green. All of these are necessary for the servos to move under computer control.

Greg McKaskle

[Shamx]

How are you guys checking the frequency? What we see so far is just the framerate which is currently at 7.5fps, which is not tat great.

[TheDominis]

I've just tested 640x480 and it takes ~.0008 seconds for each image. 1250 images per second.

-TheDominis

[Shamx]

I find that extremely hard to believe since the camera can only support up to 30 Frames per second, which means it can receive 1 image at every ~0.0333 seconds, and thats the MAX possible by the Axis 206.

BTW, whats everyone's framerate running at?

[TheDominis]

I am processing the same image more than once. I disabled the timestamp checking to see how many per second I could process.

-TheDominis