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Tue, 21 Mar 2006
software work-in-progress report ...
We've posted one minor update to the firmware that relates to the object tracking code - the previous version wasn't properly displaying the tracked objects in the lowest resolution mode, so that's been fixed. Also, the performance of object tracking algorithm has improved in its handling of a wider range of colors.
We have a couple of interesting projects in the works. One is the addition of support for the infrared emitters and detectors that are found on the new SRV-1 controllers. We're adding 3 functions, seen in the last row of the Java console -
The left-most pair of buttons turn on/off a beacon function, which would enable a robot can act as a beacon for other robots. The right-most pair of button control a beacon tracking function, which puts a robot in the mode of searching for a beacon, and if located, travel to it. The middle buttons enable/disable a proximity detection override when driving. The order of the buttons will probably change, and the colors definitely will change when our paint program actually figures out how to save the right colors.
Finally, we've set up a project on SourceForge for the SRV-1 code, and hope to start posting code there in the next week or so. If interested, you might bookmark the page and check back from time to time.
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