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RCJ Approval for PixyCam2

Pixy Software
#1

Hi,

I want to use the PixyCam2 with EV3/DEV in RoboCup Jr. for line tracing and intersections. The issue is that Robocup Jr may not allow me to do so because of the pre-existing PID controller. My questions are:

  • is that PID controller code embedded into your firmware?

  • is the PID controller code simply an independent library code which I can choose to link to or not?

  • I will use the pixy.line.getAllFeatures() to get all the vectors which I can write “my own” line tracking or even my own version of P.I.D. This pixy.line.getAllFeatures() will not provide me any P.I.D. features though. Correct?

Thanks,
Aadithya

#2

Hello,
The PID controller is not in the firmware. If you are targeting ev3dev OS, I assume you’re going to be programming in a textual programming language. (I’m ignoring the issue of getting Pixy2 to work with ev3dev though.)

The source code for the PID controller for Arduino is here, written in C++:

And there are examples that use the PID controller here:

Hope this helps

Edward

#3

Edward,

Thanks for the info! This will help me alot for the PixyCam approval.

  • Aadithya