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Arduino Computer Vision Programming

By : Özen Özkaya, Giray Yıllıkçı
Book Image

Arduino Computer Vision Programming

By: Özen Özkaya, Giray Yıllıkçı

Overview of this book

<p>Most technologies are developed with an inspiration of human capabilities. Most of the time, the hardest to implement capability is vision. Development of highly capable computer vision applications in an easy way requires a generic approach. In this approach, Arduino is a perfect tool for interaction with the real world. Moreover, the combination of OpenCV and Arduino boosts the level and quality of practical computer vision applications.</p> <p>Computer vision is the next level of sensing the environment. The purpose of this book is to teach you how to develop Arduino-supported computer vision systems that can interact with real life by seeing it.</p> <p>This book will combine the powers of Arduino and computer vision in a generalized, well-defined, and applicable way. The practices and approaches in the book can be used for any related problems and on any platforms. At the end of the book, you should be able to solve any types of real life vision problems with all its components by using the presented approach. Each component will extend your vision with the best practices on the topic.</p> <p>In each chapter, you will find interesting real life practical application examples about the topics in the chapter. To make it grounded, we will build a vision-enabled robot step by step towards the end of the book. You will observe that, even though the contexts of the problems are very different, the approaches to solve them are the same and very easy!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Arduino Computer Vision Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Processing Vision Data with OpenCV
Index

Chapter 9. Building a "Click-to-Go" Robot

Up until now, you have gained background on how to approach computer vision applications, how to divide an application development process into basic steps, how to realize these design steps and how to combine a vision system with the Arduino. Now it is time to connect all the pieces into one!

In this chapter you will learn about building a vision-assisted robot which can go to any point you want within the boundaries of the camera's sight. In this scenario there will be a camera attached to the ceiling and, once you get the video stream from the robot and click on any place in the view, the robot will go there. This application will combine all the chapters and will give you an all-in-one development application. You will see that you can use the approach in this book for any kind of Arduino vision project!