pic: 358 has four eyes!

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Cory

It's just a hunch, but Im going to go out on a limb and guess that human eyes will be much more effective at tracking robots than robots will

Have you seen our shooter video featuring our guide dog?
Not all driver's see equally well.

Originally Posted by Cory

...what happens when they aren't in front of you?

"What is behind me is not important." Unless it's Chuck Norris in a bad mood of course.
(what movie is that line from?)

Maybe we're simple bird watching enthusiasts.

[Greg Marra]

The joystick -> camera mount is extraordinarly effective. We used it last year to great success.

I suppose you could mount an EDUBot controller and have it run two CMUCams and then pass the values back through analog in's on the big RC...

Still, 4 cameras seems a tad overkill.

[Mike]

Duh, you guys are idiots. The obvious reason for having multiple cameras is for Matt's proposed method of vision multiplexing by algorithmic implementations of backwards-compatible and proprietary standards. This method is extremely nimble, with its low risk and high yield. The cameras must work in such a way that they resemble a cluster team of multi-scalable processes. From my statistical analysis, I may ascertain that the 358 robot will cause a paradigm shift in the area of FIRST autonomy.

Duh.

[geeknerd99]

Uh oh. Looks like its mounted on a vison tetra panel. That means that it'll distract our cannons... Oh wait, it's a vision tetra panel. It's not like we can see those anyways...

Perhaps it's for triangulation of their location by calculating the angles to the target?

[spamified88]

Wow, you have 4?! We don't even have one yet!!

[Andrew Blair]

Obviously, the four cameras will all return their own view on the subject of the illuminated target, where, in the brain, the information is fed into a highly complex social algorithm that allows all four streams to fight simultaneously. So, by the end of the match, hopefully, one will have established dominance of the others, just in time for the buzzer. Sounds great!

[devicenull]

I would think you are going to need some sort of co-processor.. there's no way you can have the RC monitoring 4 cameras and still doing other stuff. Co-processor for the camera is the way to go.

[Matt Krass]

We're going to keep color profiles of the primary colors of robots at the events and preselect them to track opposing alliance robots, it's also good for tracking multiple people and gunning them down with Poof balls.

We're working on pattern recognition for black and white stripes.

[coldabert]

if we're ever in the same pit, please stop by and explain to me how you managed to use all of that data in 10 seconds

[Chriszuma]

Originally Posted by Dzdconfusd

Replace the potentiometers with servos. Just takes a couple of brackets and a basic shaft.

Dude! You totally stole my idea from last year! http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=33418

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Chriszuma

Dude! You totally stole my idea from last year! http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=33418

Yeah we saw that and did the same thing because it was a nice simple solution. The difference was we got rid of the plastic we didn't need to lighten it up.

[Chriszuma]

And it seems like the 4 cameras might just be an extremely inefficient method of attaining hardware fault protection. In this way 3 cameras can be annihilated with poof balls before the robot is blind. Of course a simple protective cage with a window would work equally well, but if you're under budget why not go for the gusto?

[Chriszuma]

Originally Posted by Dzdconfusd

Yeah we saw that and did the same thing because it was a nice simple solution. The difference was we got rid of the plastic we didn't need to lighten it up.

Yeah, I was going to just rip out the actual movement mechanism in the joystick, but we ended up not even using the camera (not enough time to code + impossibility of using our robot to cap without human intervention)

[Revolverx7]

Auto turret targeting. I keep telling them i dont want to have to aim this thing i just wanna drive around pullin 360's so the camera's get to target and do all the work for me.

i wish.

[Chriszuma]

Originally Posted by Revolverx7

Auto turret targeting. I keep telling them i dont want to have to aim this thing i just wanna drive around pullin 360's so the camera's get to target and do all the work for me.

i wish.

That doesn't explain why you need 4. Turret tracking can be effectively accomplished with a single camera.