I want to use omnidirectional camera, but the commercial ones aren’t allowed.
Limitations 8.2.C.1.
All commercial omnidirectional lenses/cameras are not permitted. Only omnidirectional lenses/cameras made by students are permitted, meaning that their construction needs to be primarily and substantially the original work of a team.
Then, If I make it by a commercial camera that isn’t omnidirectional for example OpenMV H7 Cam and a self-made curved mirror, is it allowed? Of course, we will design the shape of the mirror.
Hi Takaki,
I am not an organizer, so my words have no official weight, but I can assure you that I have seen many robots with the setup you suggest. So yes, this is conform with the rules. You can’t use a commercial omnidirectional camera, but you can use a commercial single-direction camera and use mirrors and lenses to make it omnidirectional.
I’ve thought that the answer will be “Yes”, but I’ve never built a robot that has a camera so I worried about it a little. Now, I can say that the answer is clearly “Yes”.