paper: 987 Kinect Implementation

[Hjelstrom]

Originally Posted by stundt1

Awesome will read a little later. Here is some questions I have.

By when in build season did you decide that you were going to use the kinect to aid in vision tracking?

By when did you have the vision code working fully functional by?

-Steve

We decided a couple of days in and it took until the LA regional (week 3 I believe) to have the code fully functional. One reason we tried this is that we've done vision systems many times in the past so we wanted to try something different.

It turned out to be a fantastic sensor and worked better than we could have hoped. It really feels like a generational leap in the amount and quality of information available to the robot and we only barely scratched the surface.