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Re: Robotic Vision (was: Video image analisys)
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 4 Feb 2000 18:48:54 GMT
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James C. Jones <JONESJ5@OCPS.K12.FLantispam.US>
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Thanks for the info. Now, the next question is: what is the best solution
for a robotic camera? Price/decent quality; weight, wireless, batteries,
etc?
Who has the best reasonably priced solution?
Great Topic!
> James:
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> You wrote:
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> > I have seen this program (NIH) at a workshop, and it was pretty incredible.
> > I checked on the PC version (Scion makes this) and it is very similar. It
> > says that it can measure (distances?) Could this be used as "vision" for a
> > robot? Could this be used to "tell" a robot where it is?
> >
> > Lots of questions, and fairly excited about the future!
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> Absolutely, something like NIH can be used either for determining
> where your robot is in the world (eg. with a fixed camera looking down at
> your robot), or telling where things are relative to your robot with a
> robot mounted camera.
>
> There are a number of important issues to address, like
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> 1) calibrating from Image Space which is usually in pixels, to world space,
> which has real world units, or robot space, which is a coordinate system
> attached to your robot.
> 2) figuring out what features can be measured reliably to give you useful
> measurements in a non-structured scene
> 3) addressing the issue of getting 3 dimensional measurements from an
> inherently 2 dimensional detector.
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> There are many solutions to each of these problems and you can have
> a lot of fun exploring the possibilities.
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> --joel
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> Joel Katz, Principal Engineer --- (603)-577-5895
> Acuity Imaging, 9 Townsend West, Nashua, NH 03063 --- (603)-577-5965 (FAX)
> visit our Web Site at >>> www.acuityimaging.com <<<
James C. Jones
Liberty Middle School
3405 S. Chickasaw Trail
Orlando, FL 32829
Jonesj5@ocps.k12.fl.us
PH 407/249-6440 x280 (x425 voice mail)
FAX 407/249-6449
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