Cognex: In-Sight 5400 - C

The Vehicle employs two of these cameras. One is used as a downward looking camera and the other is used as a forward looking camera. The downward camera is used on the Love Letter and the forward camera is used on the Flowers.

The cameras take advantage of their very capable onboard processors. The In-Sight software provided with them from Cognex allows the image processing to be completely managed by the cameras. The communication between the cameras and the computer is simple because of this. Images captured by the cameras are processed, looking for the center of an object. The object depends on what portion of the competition run the vehicle is in. The X and Y values of the centroid of the target are normally the values needed. The cameras send these as floating point numbers to the computers shared memory. The vehicle computer draws these values from shared memory and adjusts its thrust/heading.

The addition of cameras to the vehicle in 2011 unfortunately did not improve the results at the competition. They do, however, represent a drastic improvement in the future potential of the AUV. It is important that we increase the sensing capabilities of the vehicle to make it more capable. Having camera mounted on, and communicating with the vehicle are big strides in this direction.

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5400 Series Addendum

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