Week 10

This week, I began writing my client program that would receive a vector of colored "blobs" that the camera picked up. The code to recognize a tube by finding a color and its corresponding stripe was quite easy. Due to the complication of returning the actual distance of the tube given its coordinates in the 2D image from camera, I used code written previously by one of the grad students here to calculate the actual distance to the tube. Because it's been a while since my colleagues have used some of the interfaces I need to use, I am struggling a little to understand how everything fits together. One problem I had was getting in an array of blobs in the first place.

After fixing some configuration files, I was able to receive vectors of blobs. This project has turned out to be really tricky. I can get my program to recognize colors, but not in different lightings and not always from far away. It usually only works when the colored blobs are up close in front of the camera. It doesn’t have a hard time seeing the bright pink or light blue or blue. It has trouble seeing green, orange, red, and yellow. This is it for me. Today is Friday and I had so much fun with this creative project. This was one of the best experiences of my life. I am so lucky to have been given the opportunity to go to Missouri for the summer.