Team R2D2 - Revision history

Jadeloach at 18:13, 8 May 2012

2012-05-08T18:13:14Z

2012-05-08T04:10:52Z

‎With MatLab

2012-05-08T04:05:10Z

‎Feed Streaming

2012-05-08T02:56:54Z

‎Install Open CV on Mac

2012-05-08T02:33:07Z

‎Install Open CV on Mac

2012-05-08T00:23:17Z

‎With VLC

2012-05-07T20:08:36Z

‎Possible Cameras

2012-05-07T19:54:33Z

‎Install Open CV on Mac

2012-05-07T18:42:28Z

‎With Python/OpenCV

2012-05-07T03:48:46Z

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 *Door Exit and Re-Wall-Finding
 **Robot goes back the same way it came (maybe follow same steps?).  Once outside, turn right 90 degrees, ignoring tape seen on the door (because it's already seen it and navigated through that classroom) and navigate forward a predetermined distance, then start wall-finding again.
 ==Notes==
 Jack and Duke met on 4/20 to discuss navigation. The consensus was that our first goal is to figure out how to design a virtual map of a space and write commands to get the robot to go to a target location in the space. Once we do that, we will work on mapping out chambers, hopefully using the robot to gather data of the shape of our chambers floor (which one are we going to do?) and turn that data into a map. We also discussed the possibility of using traveling salesman problem model to get the robot to our target locations as quickly as possible.

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 We didn't want to have to pay money so we did a kinda joker work around.
 #Get webcam.py and configure it how you want
-#Put this line at the start of your matlab script. This will begin executing the python code. The python code will write an image to a file.
+#Put this line at the start of your matlab script. This will begin executing the python code. The python code will write an image to a file. I have "/opt/local/bin/python2.7" because the python interpreter that has Open CV installed (macports) resides there. <pre>system('/opt/local/bin/python2.7 /path/to/webcam.py')</pre>
 #Put this line at the end of matlab script to kill the infinite loop our python code is running. <pre>system('pkill -9 -f webcam.py')</pre>

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 *http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3001881/display-an-webcam-stream-in-pyqt4-using-opencv-camera-capture
 *https://www.dropbox.com/s/3el9e70y71f19ig/webcam.py
 ====How to connect to IP camera====

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 ##Also GStreamer python bindings <pre>sudo port install py27-gst-python</pre>
 ##And if you don't have iterm2, you should get that <pre>sudo port install iTerm2</pre>
 (Below are random notes)
 #Install with OpenCV

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 ##While we are at is go ahead and install pil <pre>sudo port install py27-pil</pre>
 ##Also GStreamer python bindings <pre>sudo port install py27-gst-python</pre>
 (Below are random notes)
 #Install with OpenCV

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 =====With VLC=====
 *See [http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=81119 this thread]
 #Make VLC alias <pre>alias vlc='/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC'</pre>
 #Now connect, and up comes live feed! <pre>vlc -vvv "http://http://10.40.181.49/videostream.cgi?user=test&pwd=&rate=3"</pre>
 =====With Python/OpenCV=====
 *http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3001881/display-an-webcam-stream-in-pyqt4-using-opencv-camera-capture

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 *[http://www.aztekcomputers.com/TVIP110-TRENDNET-426191.html For obtaining online images via MATLAB]
 *[http://www.robotshop.com/4d-systems-microcam-serial-jpeg-camera-module-rs232-2.html Serial port integrated camera--looks good]
-*[http://foscam.us/foscam-fi8918w-wireless-ip-camera-11.html Foscam]
+*[http://foscam.us/foscam-fi8918w-wireless-ip-camera-11.html Foscam FI8918W]
 **[http://www.chargerbuy.com/blog/files/2011/01/Foscam-FI8918W-Quick-Installation-User-Manual2.pdf Manual]
 **[http://www.dmcinfo.com/Blog/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1327/Office-Autonomous-Robot.aspx Project that uses]