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7.1 acts

Authors

Brian P. Gerkey gerkey(at)stanford.edu

Synopsis

ACTS is a fast color segmentation system written by Paul Rybski and sold by ActivMedia; see:
http://www.activrobots.com
After training, ACTS finds colored blobs in a single camera image. Player's acts driver provides access to ACTS.

Interfaces

Supported interfaces:

Required devices:

Supported configuration requests:

Configuration file options

Note: In the table below, a default value of (none) indicates that the associated option will not be passed to ACTS. As a result, ACTS's own internal default for that parameter will be used. Consult the ACTS manual to determine what those defaults are.

Name Type Default Meaning
path string "" Path to the ACTS executable (leave empty to search the user's PATH for acts).

configfile
string "/usr/local/acts/actsconfig" Path to the ACTS configuration file to be used.

version
string "2.0" The version of ACTS in use (should be "1.0", "1.2", or "2.0").

width
integer 160 Width of the camera image (in pixels).

height
integer 120 Height of the camera image (in pixels).

pixels
integer (none) Minimum area required to call a blob a blob (in pixels).

port
integer 5001 TCP port by which Player should connect to ACTS.

fps
integer (none) Frame per second of the camera.

drivertype
string (none) Type of framegrabber driver in use (e.g., "bttv", "bt848", "matrox").

invert
integer (none) Is the camera inverted?

devicepath
string (none) Path to the device file for the framegrabber (e.g., "/dev/fg0").

channel
integer (none) Which channel to select on the framegrabber.

norm
string (none) Normalization??

pxc200
integer (none) Is the framegrabber a PXC200?

brightness
float (none) Brightness level??

contrast
float (none) Contrast level??

Notes

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2004-06-02