3.2 System Hardware

3.2.1 Color Vision Hardware

 The CCD camera was used to take pictures in the grove. The camera had a built-in

image stabilizer utility, which minimized the appearances of shaky images due to low

frequency vibrations.


V _IN1-
V _IN2-
V _IN3-


V _IN1


Aux


 RX
 RS-233
 TX
 drivers &
/RTS
 receivers
ICTS

 To DB-44
 Connector for PCI


Host 32-bit PCI bus


 Figure 3-3. Components of the imaging board.

The camera was powered by an imaging board. Camera features such as imaging mode,

shutter speed, and brightness were adjusted through serial communication. Video signals

from the camera were fed to the computer through a frame grabber (model: Meteor-II,

Matrox, Quebec, Canada) that supports capture from multiple standard analog video