Capability:Camera Vision
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| Camera Vision | |
|---|---|
| Type | Sensing |
| Measures/Controls | 2D visual images (RGB or grayscale) |
| Common Hardware | ESP32-CAM, Raspberry Pi Camera, OpenMV Cam, Arducam modules |
| Enables Activities | Activity:Sign Reading, object detection, visual navigation, color detection |
| Status | Stub - Not yet implemented in BRS robots |
Camera Vision is a sensing capability that captures visual images for processing and interpretation.
Overview
This is a stub page. This capability is not yet implemented in any BRS robot. This page exists to:
- Document the concept for future implementation
- Invite community members to add it to their robots
- Provide a starting point for hardware selection
What It Measures
2D visual images (RGB or grayscale)
Common Hardware
ESP32-CAM, Raspberry Pi Camera, OpenMV Cam, Arducam modules
Enables Activities
Adding this capability to your robot would enable:
Technical Considerations
- **Advantages**: Rich information, human-interpretable, enables many AI applications
- **Disadvantages**: Computationally expensive, requires good lighting, occlusion issues
- **Typical cost**: $5-25 per module
- **Processing**: Usually requires SBC (Raspberry Pi) or specialized hardware (OpenMV)
- **Resolution**: 640×480 to 1920×1080 typical for robotics
- **Formats**: JPEG, raw, streaming
Contributing
Want to add this capability to your robot? Here's how:
- Select appropriate hardware (see "Common Hardware" above)
- Mount the hardware to your robot chassis
- Wire to your microcontroller
- Write driver code or use existing libraries
- Test and calibrate
- Document your implementation
- Update this page with your findings
- Share on Discord
See Also
- Capabilities - All capabilities
- Activities - What this capability enables
- Robotics Ontology - How capabilities fit into BRS knowledge structure