I need a suggestion on where to start

Chris-D

Good day,
I just got my Oak D yesterday and just started messing with it. The power of this is amazing to be able to see and object and tell me where that object is in 3D space.

What I am trying to do with this is to use it for robot navigation. I want to mount the camera on the front of the robot and be able to detect the distance to the nearest object within the path of the robot. I suspect there is an example program to do this, however, everything I have found so far has to do with measuring the distance to a specific object.

Any suggestions as to which demo or example would be most helpful in getting me going?

I am using this on a Raspberry Pi 4 and will be programming in Python.

Thanks in advance, can't wait to dig deeper into this technology!

Chris D

Brandon

Hi Chris-D,

Thanks for the kind words!

Yes, there is actually and awesome tutorial/codebase by one of our OpenCV Spatial AI Competition (sponsored by Intel):
https://github.com/alemamm/oakmower

So Jan Lukas Augustin implemented what you are mentioning, detecting general things in front of the robot and their distance (in addition to known objects).

Also he is very helpful and in our Discord Community and is actively working on more projects.

So checking out his code-base and video would be a good start to see how he went about this sort of thing.

Thoughts?

Thanks again,
Brandon

Chris-D

Hi Brandon,

Thanks for the suggestion, I will check it out and let you know if this gets me on the right track.

Chris D

Brandon

Very welcome, and excited to see what you build with OAK-D!