Blob orientation

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BiancaSan93
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Blob orientation

Post by BiancaSan93 »

Hi,
I am making some experiments with the blob detection camera, in order to detect the orientation of some objects in the scene, but I am unsure about the returned value.
I only have one blob and my code is

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    res1,packet1a,packet1b=sim.handleVisionSensor(sensor1)

    if res1 >=0 then

        q1=packet1b[4]
        q1=q1*180/math.pi --convert to degrees
        sim.setFloatSignal('detectedAngle',q1)
        print(q1)
    end
The values printed out are obviously the angle of inclination of the detected object, but relative to what exactly? Shouldn't the orientation be a table with the euler angle, and if not, what angle is it measuring (alpha, beta, gamma)? This causes me a problem because, if I plot the results, I get the following

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The object I am tracking is attached to a revolute joint, exactly in front of the sensor, following a sinusoidal trajectory.
Obviously it detects the orientation of the blob as the opposite one after certain angles. Is there a way to transform the blob orientation scalar value with respect to the orientation of another object? How do I do that, if I don't know the whole orientation matrix?

Thanks in advance

coppelia
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Re: Blob orientation

Post by coppelia »

Hello,

the extracted blob orientation is always relative to the vision sensor's Y axis (or its viewing axis). You can't possible extract the full orientation of the object based on a single blob, since that is 2 D information.

Cheers

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