Range of Omni-directional Camera

Waqar731 · Postby **Waqar731** » Sat Jul 20, 2019 7:27 am

Hi,
For which value of omnidirectional_camera_aperture, the foot-bots can detect other robot's leds within 20 grids via omni-directional camera

For example If I used the following lines of code, to place the foot-bots, one at 5,22 and other at 21,22.

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<foot-bot id="kb" omnidirectional_camera_aperture="89">
      <body position="5,22,0" orientation="0,0,0" />
      <controller config="mrc" />>
    </foot-bot>
    
    <foot-bot id="kb-1" omnidirectional_camera_aperture="89">
      <body position="21,22,0" orientation="0,0,0" />
      <controller config="mrc" />>
    </foot-bot>

Then by using the value of aperture=89 both are detecting each other as shown in below image.

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But If I use the value of apperature=80 for the same robots then these robots don't detect each other via omni-directional camera. Why they don't detect with aperture = 80?

Second question is that, If I use the aperture=89, and now I place these two robots at 5,22 and 22,22, then now in this case these two also don't detect each other. In simple words, with aperture=89 we can detect the robots maximum at distance of 16 grids as can be seen in above attached image. With which value of aperture we can increase the detection of omni-dirrectional camera upto 20 grids?

Thanks

pincy · Postby **pincy** » Sat Jul 27, 2019 1:51 pm

The footbot has a body of a certain height Hb on top of which there's a small tube of a certain height Ht. At the end of the tube, a convex mirror is installed that reflects the floor onto a camera at the base of the tube.

The omnidirectional camera is modeled as a triangle whose base is the range R of the robot on the floor, and whose tip is the top of the tube. The tip of triangle is at a height

Hc = Hb + Ht.

Calling Alpha the aperture that you can set as a parameter, this equation is valid:

R / Hc = tan(Alpha).

If you want to calculate the range R, then

R = Hc * tan(Alpha)

which is the same calculation done in colored_blob_omnidirectional_camera_rotzonly_sensor.cpp#L190.

If you want to know which aperture corresponds to which range, then use

Alpha = atan2(R, Hc)

For the foot-bot, the value of Hc is 0.288699733.

Waqar731 · Postby **Waqar731** » Thu Mar 12, 2020 4:39 pm

thanks I got it..

Range of Omni-directional Camera

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