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Is it possible to use a DSP or some other embedded system to run and acquire data from the camera?

I need to run the code on something small and compact.

This is used to determine the relative position of two vehicles, about the size and shape of a soccer ball.

We are currently using a firewire camera which plugs into a DSP board. The camera data is acquired, the intensity points are determined, and then used to to calculate the 6DOF of a separate vehicle using a bunch of math (probably very similar to your Vector Tracking algorithm). Then the DSP outputs the position state vector to a separate DSP using serial communication.

I would like to do something very similar using your camera. Basically, all I need is to write a C-program which can talk to your camera via the USB-DSP interface.

Do you think this is possible?

Thanks a lot!!

quote:Originally posted by Lennon:
Is it possible to use a DSP or some other embedded system to run and acquire data from the camera?

I need to run the code on something small and compact.

This is used to determine the relative position of two vehicles, about the size and shape of a soccer ball.

We are currently using a firewire camera which plugs into a DSP board. The camera data is acquired, the intensity points are determined, and then used to to calculate the 6DOF of a separate vehicle using a bunch of math (probably very similar to your Vector Tracking algorithm). Then the DSP outputs the position state vector to a separate DSP using serial communication.

I would like to do something very similar using your camera. Basically, all I need is to write a C-program which can talk to your camera via the USB-DSP interface.

Do you think this is possible?

Thanks a lot!!It is not possible to directly interface the stock OptiTrack cameras with other embedded devices, unless the other embedded system is running windows with the USB stack.

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