Title :
Demo: Rapid deployment multi-camera ball tracking system for robotic soccer
Author :
Bender, P. ; Beekman, Jared ; Williams, Tyson
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., McNeese State Univ., Lake Charles, LA, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes a portable, rapidly deployed, system to to locate a ball used in a robotic soccer competition. The system consists of 4 Nikon S800C cameras running a computer vision application and a centralized server running Linux. Each of the cameras calculates an angle from the center-line of the image to the ball and forwards this information to the server. The centralized server updates the ball position based on the angle information received and the known position of the cameras.
Keywords :
Linux; cameras; control engineering computing; mobile robots; object tracking; robot vision; Linux; Nikon S800C cameras; angle information; ball position; camera position; computer vision application; image center-line; multicamera ball tracking system; robotic soccer competition; Cameras; Equations; Mathematical model; Robot sensing systems; Servers; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), 2013 Seventh International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Palm Springs, CA
DOI :
10.1109/ICDSC.2013.6778242
