cmucam3-hardware (#1) - tracking moving circles with different colors (#201) - Message List

tracking moving circles with different colors

hi everyone,

in my application i need the stationary CMUcam to look down from the top over a region, within the region there will be multiple robots running. On each robot there will be two circles with strong color contrast with the floor attached, each robot carries different color circles to distinguish itself from the others. I need the CMUcam to track all these circles and identify their colors and compute the relative position and angle of each robot.

my question is, which camera (CMUcam1, CMUcam2 or CMUcam3) is best fit for this application?

Thank you very much.

yaxie
05/02/08 16:58:30
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  • Message #506

    Hi,

    I believe the CMUcam3 would be the only choice for this system. The CMUcam1 and 2 can only track blobs with a single color. With the CMUcam3 hardware it is possible to track multiple colors, although we have not written the code to do so.

    You can either checkout and modify the C code yourself to have this functionality, or fill out a ticket in the system as an enhancement proposal. If you modify the code yourself, please let us know how it goes!

    agoode
    05/02/08 23:42:18
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