Camera Tracking
Integrating the Camera is the next step in our project: It is required for the computer driven players to know where the ball is.
- We built a mount for the camera
- Fight with nvidia:
We originally planed to use a nvidia jetsion for this project. An arm-based computer platform with some of nvidias CUDA cores for graphics acceleration. But nvidia really has it's way of making things unnecessary complicated. Due to this extremely closed source and hardware, everything needs to be at an exact version provided by nvidia. So we couldn't even install a recent Linux which lead to more problems with ROS and camera drivers and so on. Long story short: after spending loads of time, we decided to go with an x86 based mini computer with a dedicated graphics-card, yet to be bought. Another benefit, as the university completely closed forstudents, we can continue his development at home with some prerecorded footage of the camera and the camera itself attached to his computer.
