Vision sensor setup

[jpearman]

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.

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.

vex::vision::signature SIG_1 (1, -1397, -737, -1068, 3495, 4711, 4102, 3, 0);
vex::vision::signature SIG_2 (2, 4557, 5491, 5024, 537, 1301, 920, 3, 0);
vex::vision::signature SIG_3 (3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0);
vex::vision::signature SIG_4 (4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0);
vex::vision::signature SIG_5 (5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0);
vex::vision::signature SIG_6 (6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0);
vex::vision::signature SIG_7 (7, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0);
vex::vision Vision1 (vex::PORT1, 50, SIG_1, SIG_2, SIG_3, SIG_4, SIG_5, SIG_6, SIG_7);

Here’s a screen grab of the output of the demo code I used.

and here is the code I was using, it’s just a slightly different version of demo code I’ve posted in the past.

#include "robot-config.h"

using namespace vex;

int   screen_origin_x = 150;
int   screen_origin_y = 20;
int   screen_width    = 316;
int   screen_height   = 212;

// function to draw a single object
void
drawObject( vision::object &obj, vex::color c ) {
    int labelOffset = 0;
    
    Brain.Screen.setPenColor( vex::color::yellow );
    Brain.Screen.drawRectangle( screen_origin_x + obj.originX, screen_origin_y + obj.originY, obj.width, obj.height, c );
    Brain.Screen.setFont( vex::fontType::mono12 );
    
    if( obj.originX > 280 )
      labelOffset = -40;
    if( obj.originY > 10 )
      Brain.LCD.printAt( screen_origin_x + obj.originX + labelOffset, screen_origin_y + obj.originY-3, "Sig %o", obj.id );
    else
      Brain.LCD.printAt( screen_origin_x + obj.originX + labelOffset, screen_origin_y + obj.originY+10, "Sig %o", obj.id );
}

// function to draw all objects found
void
drawObjects( vision &v, vex::color c, bool clearScreen ) {
    if( clearScreen ) {
      Brain.Screen.setPenColor( vex::color::black );
      Brain.Screen.drawRectangle( screen_origin_x, screen_origin_y, screen_width, screen_height, vex::color::black );
    }
    
    for(int i=0;i<v.objectCount;i++)
      drawObject( v.objects[i], c );
}

int main() {        
    // Draw an area representing the vision sensor field of view
    Brain.Screen.clearScreen( vex::color::black );
    Brain.Screen.setPenColor( vex::color::green );
    Brain.Screen.drawRectangle( screen_origin_x-1, screen_origin_y-1, screen_width+2, screen_height+2 );

    while(1) {
      // request any objects with signature 1
      int numberObjects = Vision1.takeSnapshot( SIG_1 );
      
      Brain.Screen.setPenColor( vex::color::white );
      Brain.Screen.setFont( mono20 );
      Brain.Screen.setCursor( 2, 2 );
      Brain.Screen.print( "Sig 1 %2d", (int)numberObjects );

      // draw any objects found
      drawObjects( Vision1, vex::color::blue, true );


      // request any objects with signature 2
      numberObjects = Vision1.takeSnapshot( SIG_2 );
      
      Brain.Screen.setPenColor( vex::color::white );
      Brain.Screen.setFont( mono20 );
      Brain.Screen.setCursor( 3, 2 );
      Brain.Screen.print( "Sig 2 %2d", (int)numberObjects );

      // draw any objects found
      drawObjects( Vision1, vex::color::red, false );

      // run 10 times/second
      this_thread::sleep_for(100);      
    }   
}

[jpearman]

and here is how to set a color code using two signatures.

pretty much the same code used.

int main() {        
    // Draw an area representing the vision sensor field of view
    Brain.Screen.clearScreen( vex::color::black );
    Brain.Screen.setPenColor( vex::color::green );
    Brain.Screen.drawRectangle( screen_origin_x-1, screen_origin_y-1, screen_width+2, screen_height+2 );

    while(1) {
      // request any objects with color code C1
      int numberObjects = Vision1.takeSnapshot( C1 );
      
      Brain.Screen.setPenColor( vex::color::white );
      Brain.Screen.setFont( mono20 );
      Brain.Screen.setCursor( 2, 2 );
      Brain.Screen.print( "CC 1 %2d", (int)numberObjects );

      // draw any objects found
      drawObjects( Vision1, vex::color::green, true );

      // run 10 times/second
      this_thread::sleep_for(100);      
    }   
}

and a screen grab

[242firebirds]

The vision sensor will not connect to the computer in any way. I saw you mentioning USB drivers in another post, but can’t find those through a google search. If I plug in the vision sensor through the USB port, and open the V5 Firmware Utility, it shows that nothing is connected (not sure if it should show there or not). For reference, I am running Windows 10 on a Surface Book 2 (VCS). This has been very frustrating, so any help would be appreciated.

[MLTurtle]

if you were to use a color code, would that mean that in order to recognize an object both colors would need to be next to each other, or that it could just recognize either color.