cam2 hight

[savage]

i know this is late to be asking this with shiping only days away.
can some one tell me what is a good hight to place the camera

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by savage

i know this is late to be asking this with shiping only days away.
can some one tell me what is a good hight to place the camera

We had it at about 3.5' on our test robot and that worked just fine.

[vtrehan]

I think the manual recommends it to be around 3 feet up when we calibrate the camera. So keep it roughly around 3 feet, it can be lower or higher depending on the tilt, which is allowed by your camera assembly. Ours is 2' 6" and it works fine.

Originally Posted by savage

i know this is late to be asking this with shiping only days away.
can some one tell me what is a good hight to place the camera

[dlavery]

In general, the higher you can place the camera, the better. Positioning it higher on the robot will give more of a downward look angle as the camera is aimed at the vision tetras when the robot is in the starting locations. This is desirable, as it will fill more of the field of view of the camera with the carpet on the field. Less background clutter (audience, off-field elements, opposing team t-shirts, etc.) will be visible to the camera, which should reduce the frequency of false positive readings when searching for the vision tetras.

-dave

[Rombus]

Our camera is at about 45-50" up, Reason for the heigth is the second servo that allows us to tilt the camera, thats what we use to see how close we are to a tetra