I'm working on an ambitious robotic project. The idea is to perform biologically plausible artificial vision on an autonomous vehicle. For that we will put two dual CPU motherboards on a RC car to create a beowulf cluster. You can find a short description on http://ilab.usc.edu/beobots Each board will have its own camera, either USB or FireWire. We want to achieve 320x200 at 30 fps and need to use the v4l API. I would like to know : - can we use FireWire cams with v4l ? - would a USB cam be able to do 320x200x30 ? (because of the USB 12Mb/s we would need hardware compression, but will the compression algorithm behave OK if the camera is always moving - as on a 25 mph RC car ?) If you have any comment - specially about the choice of the cameras (should be small, resist to shocks and vibrations and as cheap as possible) I'm very interested too ! Thank you for your help, -Eric -- Eric Pichon PhD Student (213) 821 3012 iLab 28D Hedco Neuroscience Building University of Southern California Los Angeles CA 90089
