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Overview
CMUcam1 is a new low-cost, low-power sensor for mobile robots. You can use CMUcam1 to do many different kinds of on-board, real-time vision processing. Because CMUcam1 uses a serial port, it can be directly interfaced to other low-power processors such as Parallax Basic Stamps and PIC chips.
At 17 frames per second, CMUcam1 can do the following:
- track the position and size of a colorful or bright object
- measure the RGB or YUV statistics of an image region
- automatically acquire and track the first object it sees
- physically track using a directly connected servo
- dump a complete image over the serial port
- dump a bitmap showing the shape of the tracked object
- supports multiple cpu boards on one camera for parallel processing
Using CMUcam1, it is easy to make a robot head that swivels around to track an object. You can also build a wheeled robot that chases a ball around, or even chases you around.
This product or portions thereof is manufactured under license from Carnegie Mellon University. Copyright Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. All rights reserved.