ERP at Mobot 2008

one hundred dollars for all that ,programing design hours of development,nights working thinking and trying to figure out this...and they gave you only a hundred!!!! WTF!! WORTHLESS!!! your robot must be at least 500 dollars and they gave you a Hundred??? i feel bad!! that's sick !! at least 300 for winning!!

I don't really mind. I use it to test all my new ideas out, and even my Axon product. I didn't build it for just MOBOT, but to do most intelligent robot competitions.

Wow good job, he went back to gate #9 lol

reminds me of wall e , how the robots follow lines

hehe lookin good :)

why is that slalom part so long, 8 gates

btw at one moment it speeds up, did it detect that the path goes straight and than accelerated?

hmmm the only time it accelerated was when going down hill . . . i didn't put any speed control on it, was too lazy.

my fault, i see now

Its both pan and tilt. I'll post other videos of it tracking fire and other random colors using both in the coming weeks.

As for the algorithm, I use thresholding to find the colors, autogain is left on, and middlemass to locate the line. The cam keeps the middlemass central, and then the chassis centers itself on the camera. Fuzzy logic control, with a smoothing algorithm, is added to camera motion to keep it from being jerky.

Cool design with the camera! Is it pan/tilt or just pan? And what algorithm do you use to detect the line?