This week I continued with the CV portion of our project and had success on detecting position in most cases, but we ran into considerations about how the cameras would recognize the paddle in different orientations. We decided to change our strategy from contours to color recognition which would allow more flexibility in recognition if the paddle was closer to parallel with the floor. This strategy would also open up the option of coloring the edge of the paddle so that could be recognized as well.
This week I will go forward with this path and hopefully finish it up so I can turn my attention to more nuanced issues with the CV or assist on other subsystems.