OLADIPUPO JOHN SHOTADE, 20084356 #4

 Team meeting

In the meeting this week the project leader Jason asked me to explore RoboRealm camera features and try to get the roborealm stream up to ubidots.

What is RoboRealm?

RoboRealm® is an application for use in computer vision, image analysis and robotic vision systems. Using an easy point and click interface RoboRealm simplifies vision programming.

 I Started with the installation of roborealm

Steps taken for roborealm installation

  • Downloaded the application from the RoboRealm website
  • Installed the application
After the installation was done I started a livestream
Steps taken to start a livestream in roborealm
  • Went to options menu 
  • Clicked on the video tab 
  • Clicked on the drop down box and chose my laptops webcam
  • Clicked ok
After the livestream I explored the object recognition feature in RoboRealm using objects such as:
  • Scissor
  • Plain text on paper saying ON on one side and OFF on the other
Steps taken in exploring the object recognition feature
  • Searched object recognition in the search bar in RoboRealm
  • Clicked on it which brought me to its window
  • Clicked on add object
  • Placed either the scissor or the paper with plain text facing the webcam
  • Dragged the red object detection to the object point and enlarged it to fit the object
  • Clicked ok and named the object
  • Placed the object facing the webcam for testing and once it was placed, a red detection box with the name of the object popped up.
After the livestream was completed i went on to displaying the livestream on ubidots
Steps taken to displaying the livestream on ubidots
  • Researched the RoboRealm application webserver and how it works
Use of the application webserver
Used to display the the RoboRealm livestream on a site which can be accessed using localhost or the local ip address on which the stream is running on.

Steps taken to start the application webserver
  • Clicked on the options menu in the RoboRealm 
  • Clicked on the webserver tab
  • Ticked activate webserver box 
  • Changed the maximum number of connections to 5 
  • left the default port number at 8080
  • Clicked ok to start the webserver
Step taken to test the webserver 
  • Pasted the webserver url containing my laptops' IP address into chrome web browser to test if the livestream will display which it did 
Steps taken to display the livestream on ubidots 
  • Signed into my ubidots account
  • Added an html canvas widget (Which is used to display images and streams)
  • Clicked on settings
  • Clicked add editor code
  • Added an ipframe containing the livestream url in the html 
  • Accepted all defaults and clicked ok 
  • Refreshed the ubidots site to see if the livestream will display on the widget which it did 
Next step
  • Recording a demo on using the object recognition feature in RoboRealm
  • Adding the demo to the blog

In the conclusion this week was a very successful week for me and whole group in general. Many thanks to project leader Jason for all the love and support shown. 

BYE FOR NOW. UNTIL NEXT WEEK

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