I might have a go at it this summer when I'm out of school. I've got
no other battlers, so might as well pioneer the areas of autonomous
target tracking and engagement.
-Matt
On May 21, 1:10 pm, Mike Måne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just for curiosity's sake, is any member here actually going to enter the
> Pittelli X-Prize? (No, offence; I think it's an interesting idea =D )
>
> -Mike M
>
> 2009/5/21 Frank Pittelli <[email protected]>
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> > Doug Conn wrote:
> > > I tried this technique with the camera and laser in my tank. It worked
> > > pretty well in low light and short ranges. In full daylight, though, the
> > > laser point was not identifiable in the camera frame.
>
> > Ahhh ... the wonderfully subtle technical problems posed by The Pittelli
> > X-Prize begin to reveal themselves. Despite all the TV shows and
> > YouTube videos showing a multitude of apparently simple techniques for
> > range finding, the reality is that reality is a bitch and the
> > battlefield is not your workshop or laboratory.
>
> > Even if you got a more powerful laser or a CCD that was tuned for the
> > laser, would the simple trig approach still work for something 50 feet
> > away? If you crank the numbers for targeting something 2 feet wide, at
> > a range of 50 feet, with a co-axial distance of at most 2 feet (between
> > the camera lense and the laser), what pixel resolution do you need to
> > tell when that object has moved 3 feet forward or backward?
>
> > RE: Radar ranging: In the U.S., the FCC limits the power output of
> > commercial wide-spectrum radar devices so that the maximum realistic
> > motion detection range is about 25 feet. Government devices can be more
> > powerful, but sale of those devices is restricted.
>
> > BTW: Feel free to cross-post the existence of The Pittelli X-Prize to
> > all of the autonomous robot mailing lists and forums. You'll probably
> > get lots of wonderful ideas from them, but I seriously doubt any of the
> > thousands of autonomous roboteers will actually take up the challenge.
> > After reading it, they'll just go back to building their desktop "bug
> > walkers" and LEGO-based contraptions, to impress their non-technical
> > friends and family.
>
> > Frank P.
>
> --
> -Mike Måne @http://moonrcprojects.googlepages.com
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