is this a real product lol…i got my hopes up about the camera working with the mini-abb, i doubt it though.
Actually,its not ,that looks like a CMU Cam.
I think it does connect to the Mini ABB.
really? ive been told the miniabb doesnt have the processing power to handle a camera.
A biped with a camera attached is just that - it has a camera attached to it. Whether it is using the camera for video processing or feedback would have to be specified elsewhere. Looking at images of the CMU Cam on other websites, it’s apparent that the camera pictured does not particularly look like the CMU Cam’s usual configuration of two larger stacked rectangular boards. Also, the pictured BRAT’s backpack only appears to have one board, resembling an SSC-32. If I had to venture a guess, I’d say that it’s configured for tethered operation, with the camera providing a “BRAT’s eye view” to the operator via a wired video path.
As to whether it’s a real product or not: Other than the camera, everything there seems to be standard products available from Lynxmotion. It looks like a standard BRAT configuration with the top channel turned on its side, plus a panning mechanism consisting of one standard servo, a universal bracket, and a long C bracket. The camera looks like any number of small board-style video cameras that can be had from a large number of different vendors, being held onto the C bracket with small screws and four small standoffs.
Edit to add: Using a serial and video tether, it could well be used with some custom software on a stationary PC to perform image analysis and navigate accordingly.
Just as Semus has said, it’s a cam mounted on the brat but its application is most likely for a “birds eye view” like you would for an RC plane or and RC car. It’s most likely for monitoring purposes only.
The Lynx Bot board has no support for a camera, meaning it was not designed to process video data locally. You can however used the bot board to respond to signals sent to it, either via a wired device or even a wireless device. For small bots with limited space, such as the Brat, a PC is the best tool for processing video data and then send its results back to the bot using either a wired or wireless connection to react to video images.
This is true.
The CMUcam does processing onboard, and just sends the resulting data out to the microcontroller. There really isn’t anything that needs processing other than to make decisions based on the CMUcam’s output.
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so what you’re saying is that a CMU camera is the best choice
for an ABB controller. Then how about this I have a onboard CPU connected to the ABB would it be possible then to connect a camera like in the picture to the ABB?
A CMU cam prolly is best if you want to use nothing else but the ABB board. Like Linuxguy said, the video is processed by the CMU cam board and signals sent to the ABB.
This depends entirely on your application. If you want to do stuff like color tracking or other stuff the CMUCam excels at, then yes, it would be a great choice. If you want to do security type stuff like watching an area for intruders, etc, then it would be better to have a small 2.4 GHz wireless camera sending video back to a PC for display and/or processing. Roborealm running on a PC can be used for processing video and sending commands back to a robot via a different wireless link such as Bluetooth or Zigbee.
Do you mean a different onboard CPU communicating with an Atom MCU on a bot board? You can connect a camera as shown as long as the camera is very close in size to the one in the picture. You may have to alter the mounting setup a bit, but this depends on the camera you choose.
8-Dale
Okay you guys are saying the CMUCAM has an onboard board to process the video, which is good. But what do you mean by sending signals to the miniabb?
I’d like to make decisions at times using the camera and then according to what the camera see’s, and then tell the miniabb what to do according to image.
Can this be done?