Carlitos prime
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Hi guys!
I have been trying to get my box robot up and running but cant get past the camera tracking. It just wont follow me or any colors. I have checked with motion control and everything is A O.K! I just find that the videos for helping are dated when it comes to the new software which becomes frustrating and at times over whelming!
I must be getting it all wrong with the Script for Command Contrals!
But what D.J Sures suggests does not exist anymore on the list!
I love Robots and would just like some help! PLEASE!
I have the new 16.0 version.
Thanks!
That did help a bit. It moves now but just like Winstn60 mentioned, I'm having the same issue! It just doesn't follow smoothly or accurate and I adjusted it. It wont track me vertically. When I check " Track by relative position it goes everywhere and spots me but doesn't stop. I really think there is a glitch in the new software.
Let me know how you guys make out with this?
Thanks!
Horizontal and vertical increment may need adjusting, although I haven't played with the camera much lately so can't be sure, I will check it all out tonight. I doubt it's a software glitch as DJ loves the camera control and has mentioned how much better it now runs, so I assume there was substantial testing done on it.
I just noticed that my tracking speed in the image looks like it may have been reset on the update (or I might have messed it up at some point), it might be to do with that too, play with the slider and see what happens.
You may also need to adjust the servo speeds, I usually do these in an init script, in fact I know I have servo speeds set up so the head moves slower.
I'll post more in about 3 1/2 hours when I get home
However, I do have an init script running which sets the servo speeds for the pan & tilt
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Hooray! I had a eureka moment and now it works great you have to get the min and max servo settings the right way round its too easy to swap them over so to speak and then nothing will work. I have to have my servo inverted box ticked as well. Camera tracking was one of the most important features so I'm pleased to have sorted it at last
Do i have to put a ControlCommand() code?
On the video Sures says to pick ControlCommand() ("found ball". Script Start)
and ControlCommand() ("Lost ball". Script Start.
If so, this is not in the list of scripts in the new software on tracking control options. I will take some pics of my setting and see if anyone can guide me.
This is a really great community you guys have here, Thanks
Oh, to Winstn60. what servo speed do you have it on?
You wont have to use a ControlCommand() code for your camera to track correctly. You need a let lit subject and carefully adjust the colour setting so only the object you want gets detected. Glyph's are good for this as the don't need setting up in the same way. I have enable forward motion and left/right motion ticked but enable movement tracking is unticked but that shouldn't make any difference. Post some pics
I also have the grid set up so the centre square is smaller than the outer 8 squares, not too small otherwise it's forever twitching. I'll try and post a screenshot later.
This weekend is the best time for me. *stress*
I would avoid D0 as a port in case you want to use it for another control
Try tracking a colored object 1st and adjust the color control carefully so the object is solidly highlighted by the camera control. Room lighting looks ok though
I drew a simple face on a piece of paper that was easier to move around in front of the camera rather than my own face. I also wear glasses and have noticed that wearing them sometimes the detection isn't as good
Also try using the custom Haar control and load up haarcascade_frontalface_alt2.xml from the example site listed.
I found that the highest camera resolution worked best for me on Face detection as I didn't get many false squares popping up which are smaller
I get a lot of "phantom faces" or false detection still though, but nothing so bad that it throws off the tracking, he just has a little twitch now and then, which adds to his character
Need to work on the smoothness though. Any suggestions?
I got the wii remote going on it and now I'm working on the voice recognition and I'm stuck again. Any tips will save me some time.
Thanks!
I just got my BoxBot running. This is all very cool stuff. I even got the Wii controller working. I searched the forum and cant find any help with my camera issue. The camera works and I see video but cant get the "Processed Video" to show up? I can control the V&H servo with the Wii controller, but no tracking. I see screen shots and in videos that everyone has a video with grid, but I cant get mine to show up. Am I missing something simple?
Any help would be great.
Thanks!
Added info:
I wanted to add that this is showing up in the debug:
Camera Initialized: USB Video Device @ 640x480
Error Camera.SetCaptureImage: System.OutOfMemoryException: Insufficient memory to continue the execution of the program.
at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.AllocHGlobal(IntPtr cb)
at AForge.Imaging.UnmanagedImage.FromManagedImage(BitmapData imageData)
at AForge.Imaging.UnmanagedImage.FromManagedImage(Bitmap image)
at EZ_B.Camera.SetCaptureImage(Bitmap bmIn)
I have plenty of RAM and Disk available, so what is out of memory?
I found the issue. Was simple, need WIN7 will not work in XP