[Robotics] Image extraction from camera

[koen buys]

Hi Boris,

You can have a look at the MORSE project which has an implementation,
there is a simple example on our repository:

http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/trunk/kul-ros-pkg/blender/

Koen

On 16 July 2010 11:40, Boris Duran <boris at yodir.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I posted this message in Blender's forums first but now I realize that i
> should have asked the blendered roboticist first. Anyway, here it goes:
> I would like to get the content of what my camera is watching, I guess an
> RGB matrix like in a real camera.
> I'm modelling a small mobile robot with a camera on top of it, so it'll see
> the different colored boxes and balls in his world through its camera. Now,
> how do I read the content of that image in the camera.
> In a real robot, the camera provides a matrix with let's say 320x240 pixels
> for each color channel, usually 3 channels RGB or HSV. Once that matrix is
> acquired the rest of the computer vision stuff can be applied to control the
> robot.
> Is it possible to get this kind of information in Blender's camera???
>
> Any help, comments and suggestions on how to solve this problem will be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Boris