I need help with the vision sensor

[weilin]

These links may be helpful:

@jpearman

have a look at these knowledge base articles.

https://help.vex.com/category/205-vision-sensor

There are two different ways to configure the sensor depending on whether you want to use the robot config panel or just create vision header files.

@jmckenna

have a STEM Lab that discusses how to use the Vision Sensor with VEXcode V5 Blocks. You can find it here: https://education.vex.com/parent-wrapper.php?id=vision-sensor-v5

There is also an example project in both VEXcode V5 Blocks & text that features the Vision Sensor.

Vision sensor setup

There still seems to be some issues setting up the vision sensor. Although we do know that VCS 1.0/vision sensor utility has a few bugs in this area, it is still pretty simple, I’m not sure why the theories about needing to freeze the image are running around. Anyway, here’s a quick demo showing how easy it is. [V5 vision sensor demo] The configuration that is hidden inside robot-config.h looks like this and is what is used in your program to setup the vision sensor when it runs. …

Meaning of Vision Sensor parameters?

Not really, they are the values for a bounding box in a uv (as in yuv ) like color space, not easy to do by hand.

Vision Sensor config - objectCount inconsistent

I’m having a hard time setting up my vision sensor. I set up the objects in the vision sensor utility, in the utility is consistently tracks the flag signitures. However, once if try to use the vision sensor in actual code, the data I get back is wayy off of that in the utility. Vision.objectCount for the blue flag signiture is usually zero, occasionally jumping to 1 or 2, where in the vision utlity it’s always seen tracking a steady 3. I tried jpearmans vision program from a while back (sorry, …