What are you programming?
Programming is all about problem-solving and transferring skills developed in the classroom and in clubs and
applying them to real world situations. Our programmers alternate between working directly on tele-op, autonomous
and on developing and upholding our entirely self-written website. It's not easy task, and requires hours upon
hours of work and heavy collaboration with the mechanics team to make sure that the code written can be effectively
applied and used.
Creating Camera Vision
A little bit of code
For the 2021-22 season, we created our own Camera Vision system.
This system allows the cameras on the robot to determine how green an object infront of
it is. Our code uses HSV coloring techniques, saturation curves, and brightness
correction to account for different lighting conditions. This information is passed to the
other control systems which allows the robot to perform vital functions.
Camera Vision in action
Our Camera Vision system splits what it "sees" into three section. It then identifies how much green is in each
section. By finding the percentage of green in each section, the robot is able to tell where the green object
actually is.