Hello Team,
Well I'm diving in on this project. So it's sink or swim. The discussion thread for Automatic Battery Charger Docking is still open for those who wish to keep brain storming on the topic.
We decided that it would be better to start a separate thread when someone started their build on this project as each one will probably be unique for each individual's home or tastes in design.
I know Fred is doing one Home Base Finding Design Using A Ir Beacon Idea
And I think Technopro is working on one at Ir Autonomous Home Base
So kick back, grab a cup of coffee and try not to fall asleep
I decided to put down all my thoughts and plans on this subject and work through a scenario (tailored to my home) to help me understand just what will be involved in all this. There will be a bunch of scripting to accomplish this (Rich are you available to assist?) and lots more hardware issues I'm sure. I will en devour to post schematics and pictures as time permits.
Please...please, everyone who dares to wade through all this project, let me know your thoughts and criticisms. Poke holes in my theories, help brainstorm, whatever. All comments are welcome.
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SBANAS09's Kitty Hawk
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yes i mean AUTOCAD from AUTODESK,it very high cost mostly the drafters at work use it
PHOTOSHOP is famous for photo software just like AUTODESK is famous for CAD software
Ill be glued tio this project so if i see a question i can answer(which is rare) i can help.
Going to take a look at that floor map design i was talking about.
Need a way to modify the floor map image and feed it back into floor map. Can save the image but no way to put it back in.
Now please turn your attension to @rgordon
Have not been able to get time to work on my project lately
Trying to get our rental house ready for the next family to move in. It seems to be an endless amount of things to fix or clean up. We have two rental houses and our house. I hate being a landlord. But the wife seems to think I never give out of energy or don't need any time for myself. tired
Hopefully I will be able to work on my project soon. Got to save up some "squirrel" money to buy the parts for the IR beacons and transmitters.
Thanks guys for your contributions and support on this project. Please don't give on me.
The multiple color tracking is a wonderful new tool but, I don't think it would work in my home for the auto docking project due to the lighting conditions. Seems to me that the camera needs extraordinarily bright lighting to track things properly. Maybe its just I have not found the right combination of settings yet IDK.
Rex
You thought illuminate the field of view with a high brightness light on the robot? Could be activated only when the camera HELD color tracking. I'm amazed at how much light the torch of my cell phone, as just a hyper bright LED, perhaps with the appropriate distance between the light and the color of the robot to recognize they could correct the problems by poor lighting or mood lighting.
SAME with me i wont be able to finish my projects for awhile till i get back from my work trip my robots going to miss me for awhile
BUT house stuff and work comes first
@R2D2 My robot has 2 high powered LED lights for eyes which light his way in the dark, these are to the sides of the camera so you would think it could illuminate for vision however it does not. When really close it shows as white on the camera due to reflection, too far away and it doesn't help at all.
@Rex, tinker with the settings, you can change the brightness etc. I had to on mine as it is very dim in my house (warm white lamps, a more comforting surrounding, not task lighting at all) but it still catches phantom faces for face detection.
Rich, have you had time to wade through any of my docking example? How hard (or is it possible) to make a script to count the number of blinks of the IR beacons as described in my example. See page 1 post #6.