Integrating Computer Vision with Motion Control - FIRST Championship Conference

[Jared Russell]

Are you having a tough time coordinating vision with motion?


Does buggy vision make your robot grasp at things that aren't there?


Do you wish your robot had superhuman powers of perception and control?


If so, join us at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 27 in Room AC265 of the America's Center at the FIRST Championship for our session on "Integrating Computer Vision with Motion Control".

Here's the abstract:

Often the hardest part of solving an FRC computer vision challenge is figuring out how to integrate a camera-based vision algorithm with closed-loop control to automatically point, steer, or drive a mechanism (or the entire robot!). This presentation walks through techniques and best practices that can be employed to mitigate issues like latency, imperfect cameras, and simplified vision algorithms to achieve lightning-fast, precise, and robust control.

This will be presented by Jared and Tom from Team 254, who (together with Austin from Team 971) brought you Motion Planning and Control for FRC last season. We had a great response (and a packed house!) last year, and have incorporated your feedback to make this session even better. To ensure the session is approachable for all levels of experience, we plan on focusing on concrete FRC problems (like auto-aiming a shooter) while showing how concepts like understanding how your camera works, being smart about tuning your vision algorithms, utilizing kinematics, and applying motion control best practices can make your solution better...we want to help teams compete while also opening your students' eyes to how professional roboticists approach similar problems.

And the great news is that all Championship Conference talks will be recorded this year, so you don't need to choose between this session and Karthik's...you can have both!