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Re: 2D positioning ???
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:20:30 GMT
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Tim Gion <tcg3j@cs.virginia.*avoidspam*edu>
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On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, michael yates wrote:

> Has anyone out there used an overhead mounted camera to do this sort of thing?
> Was it sucessful? We were reading about the roboCup soccer and the overhead
> camera thing was the method they used. However we are not sure what sort of
> resources (time and hardware) would be required to pull this level of image
> manipulation and calculations off.

I plan to try this myself once I test the robot controllers in simulation.
In "Reactive Visual Control of Multiple Non-Holonomic Robotics Agents,"
the CMU team says that they use a frame grabber with frame rate transfer
from a 3CCD camera.  A 166mhz Pentium is used for the image processing.
I found this paper at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/kwunh/www/pubs/visual-control.ps

I'm wondering how well one IR tower will communicate with multiple RCX's.
I haven't played with this yet as I haven't purchased the additional
equipment.  Actually, I haven't played with the single RCX I have, at this
point.  I plan on running all the controllers on a PC and beaming a
command stream each time step into the "play area."  The command for each
individual robot will be preceded by its ID number.

Tim

Tim Gion
tcg3j@cs.virginia.edu (fastest) or gion@cs.virginia.edu
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~tcg3j



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  2D positioning ???
 
I realise this is an open ended question but I will ask anyhow. We (as I have mentioned a number of times, probably maing in RCX newsgroup) have 6 RCX's that we wish to make into a demo for school kids. Ideally that demo would involve some sort of (...) (27 years ago, 8-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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