Robot: Object Track and Move

[sergeelkhoury]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to implement a robot that is able to detect a point on the ground from a distance and move towards it. The robot is an sbRIO 9631 and is already fully functional with an ultrasonic sensor on board.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you!

[Hatef.fouladi]

what is your points features ?
color ?
shape ?
intensity ?

[sergeelkhoury]

The ground I will be working on will be white. I can choose the points to be of circular shape and from different colors ex red and yellow or place a shape ex: arrow so that the robot can understand that it should move forward. I am still deciding and open to better suggestions. What do you suggest?

[Hatef.fouladi]

classify your points based on shape and then check them by color

[sergeelkhoury]

I am having trouble tracking points from a distance. I am using a labview code that uses image processing to track a black square on a white sheet of paper; however this code is unable to adjust to depth thus losing the target as the paper is moved away from the camera. I am not sure how to resolve such an issue in order to implement it on my project, could you please offer some further explanation or an example that I can refer to?

Thank you sir!

[Hatef.fouladi]

indeed your problem is not just code but also is optic
try to use wild lens low focal length also use scale feature in your tracking

[Hatef.fouladi]

also based on your project telecentrice lens could be nice choose