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Andy Roid
USA
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Hello DJ,
A while back you had talked about an indoor navigation system using the EZ-Robot cameras. Now that the Io Tiny and camera are available, and cost effective, do you think you will again consider the building of the scripting?
Ron
Ron
The light beacons had trouble in varying lighting conditions.
The infrared is an entirely new camera and therefore doesn't view the real world view so you have nothing to compare to where the robot actually is. We would need to consider a dual camera (ir and regular) unit for it to work correctly.
It's how swarm robotics work, such as the dancing drones. They have a large number of IR cameras (sometimes up to 50 cameras). The IR cameras do not need to see objects to avoid, so that part is easy. Mixing the two is the challenge, but it's doable with a dual camera PCB as i mentioned.