Robotic vision

[Qwweb]

Is anyone else excited about the new Intel Joule and RealSense Dev. Kits? The I was on a high school robotics team and we used the Nvidia Jetson TK1 for on-board autonomous vision recognition/ target acquisition (some other teams used the Intel Edison board). The Nvidia board is great but takes up a lot of surface real-estate and requires shielding to go around it. Although the RealSense or Joule would also need shielding, it would be much more compact. The Board is also a vast improvement over the previous Intel board preferred by robotics teams, the Intel Edison.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/joule-vs-edison

https://software.intel.com/en-us/realsense/robotic-development-kit 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tk1-embedded-dev-kit.html

https://software.intel.com/en-us/iot/hardware/joule

What my team used the Jetson TK1 for last year was to take an input from a camera with LEDs around it to shine off of retroflective tape allowing the board to take the visual input and put it through different algorithims to recognize the distance and orientaion that the target was at to then send an input to our motor controllers to control the RPMs of a flywheel to shoot a ball into a target outlined with said tape. The approximate sequence went first through a polygon recognition algorithm to filter out any artifacts, then into a trig algorithm to calculate the 3D orientation using a point-voting system, and finally ran a calculation for projectile motion of the ball (a large dodgeball). After this was finished (in around 0.05 seconds) a signal was sent to National Instruments RoboRIO that we used for the I/O and then to the motor controllers to instruct how fast the motors would need to spin to get the ball the correct distance while, simultaneously, a separate controller instructed a separate motor to move to be square with the target. Finally the ball was moved by an indexing wheel via manual control (XBox controller over WIFI) to shoot at the target.  

 

[Qwweb]

3 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

RAISE THE ROOF. TURN IT UP. BE AMAZED, AT THE WONDROUS moms spaghetti

 

Damn that must be a pretty nice school

The club is one out of several thousand around the world, for more information on the competition if you are interested this is the link. I was in the FIRST Robotics Competition or FRC.

http://www.firstinspires.org/

[kennethnakasone]

I'm not very familiar with this product; could you explain what it's for/how it improves on previous technologies/why it's so hype?

 

(...and then also put that explanation in the OP so that it follows the News Section Posting Guidelines better?)

 

In the meantime, I'll follow the links that you've placed at the bottom to inform myself a bit.

 

 

 

EDIT: By the way, i'm not sure if I'm interpreting this right, but on page 10 of the Datasheet pdf, it says that the Joule has a 14nm Intel Atom 4-core processor supporting 2 threads per core....so this tiny thing has 8 threads? Dang.

[DXMember]

:)) we got these a month ago for a cool project at work