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Re: Surveillance Robot
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 25 Nov 1998 19:56:41 GMT
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John Donaldson <jdonaldson@&IHateSpam&ghg.net>
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Try looking at http://www.clarc.org
We have a ATV Specail Interest Group with links to ATV suppliers. atv
equitment is getting real small.
John A. Donaldson
Jim Thomson wrote:
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> I'm an Engineering student at Cambridge University. My final year project
> is 'Design and Construction of a Visually Guided Mobile Robot'. I bought
> the mindstorms kit to prototype with, but I've found it's range is good
> enough, so I'm using it unaltered.
>
> The aim is to have a surveillance camera (currently a Connectix Quickcam - a
> paralell port camera) surveying an area of floor with the robot in it. A
> ball will then be put into the playing area and the robot should fetch the
> ball and bring it back. My project is inteneded as an investigation into
> what can be done with a view to introducing a computer vision practical
> module to the teaching course. This is great because it gives me a very
> good excuse to try other things along the way.
>
> I'm using Visual C++ for my project - and the Microsoft Vision Software
> Developers Kit to interface with the camera.
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> I've got a demo at the moment (for a presentation I'm doing tommorow - must
> get on and actually write the presentation) which has a camera mounted on a
> turntable. The software takes two pictures, then uses image differencing to
> detect where most motion has occured. It the either turns left, right, or
> stays where it is. It then repeats this sequence.
>
> If it senses motion straight ahead three times in a row, it launches a ping
> pong ball (quite fast).
>
> The demo is just to demontrate that I've got the camera and lego interfacing
> with the computer, but I'm hoping to get onto some more complicated computer
> vision stuff soon. - If there's a demand I could put the source code on the
> web, as far as I can tell (having tried it with two different cameras the
> quickcam and an intel USB camera) the code is reasonably portable, but it
> does require some tweaking depending on the frame rate of the camera and
> speed of turntable.
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> Oh well, I'd best get on with writing this presentation now - any comments
> appreciated.
>
> Jim
>
> Web Page : http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~95jmt2/ - It doesn't have anything to
> do with lego on it yet.
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