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<h1>acts<br/>
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<p>ActivMedia color tracking system.
<a href="#_details">More...</a></p>
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<p>ActivMedia color tracking system. </p>
<dl class="todo"><dt><b><a class="el" href="todo.html#_todo000009">Todo:</a></b></dt><dd>This driver is currently disabled because it needs to be updated to the Player 2.0 API.</dd></dl>
<p>ACTS is a fast color segmentation system written by Paul Rybski and sold by <a href="http://www.activrobots.com">ActivMedia</a>. After training, ACTS finds colored blobs in a single camera image. Player's acts driver starts and controls ACTS, which must already be installed and trained.</p>
<p>The acts driver supports ACTS versions 1.0, 1.2, and 2.0.</p>
<p>PXC200 framegrabbers, when accessed through the bttv module, may cause the machine to hang. A workaround is to first read a frame from a framegrabber channel on which there is no video signal, and then start reading from the right channel. (This problem is unrelated to Player's acts driver).</p>
<dl class="user"><dt><b>Compile-time dependencies</b></dt><dd></dd></dl>
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<li>none</li>
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<dl class="user"><dt><b>Provides</b></dt><dd></dd></dl>
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<li><a class="el" href="group__interface__blobfinder.html">blobfinder</a></li>
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<dl class="user"><dt><b>Requires</b></dt><dd></dd></dl>
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<li>none</li>
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<dl class="user"><dt><b>Configuration requests</b></dt><dd></dd></dl>
<ul>
<li>none</li>
</ul>
<dl class="user"><dt><b>Configuration file options</b></dt><dd></dd></dl>
<p>In the list below, a default value of (none) indicates that the associated option will not be passed to ACTS. As a result, ACTS's own internal default for that parameter will be used. Consult the ACTS manual to determine what those defaults are.</p>
<ul>
<li>path (string)<ul>
<li>Default: ""</li>
<li>Path to the ACTS executable (leave empty to search the user's PATH for acts).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>configfile (string)<ul>
<li>Default: "/usr/local/acts/actsconfig"</li>
<li>Path to the ACTS configuration file to be used.</li>
</ul>
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<li>version (string)<ul>
<li>Default: "2.0"</li>
<li>The version of ACTS in use (should be "1.0", "1.2", or "2.0")</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>width (integer)<ul>
<li>Default: 160</li>
<li>Width of the camera image (in pixels)</li>
</ul>
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<li>height (integer)<ul>
<li>Default: 120</li>
<li>Height of the camera image (in pixels)</li>
</ul>
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<li>pixels (integer)<ul>
<li>Default: (none)</li>
<li>Minimum area required to call a blob a blob (in pixels)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>port (integer)<ul>
<li>Default: 5001</li>
<li>TCP port by which Player should connect to ACTS.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>fps (integer)<ul>
<li>Default: (none)</li>
<li>Frame per second of the camera.</li>
</ul>
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<li>drivertype (string)<ul>
<li>Default: (none)</li>
<li>Type of framegrabber driver in use (e.g., "bttv", "bt848", "matrox").</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>invert (integer)<ul>
<li>Default: (none)</li>
<li>Is the camera inverted?</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>devicepath (string)<ul>
<li>Default: (none)</li>
<li>Path to the device file for the framegrabber (e.g., "/dev/fg0")</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>channel (integer)<ul>
<li>Default: (none)</li>
<li>Which channel to select on the framegrabber.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>norm (string)<ul>
<li>Default: (none)</li>
<li>Something to do with normalization</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>pxc200 (integer)<ul>
<li>Default: (none)</li>
<li>Is the framegrabber a PXC200?</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>brightness (float)<ul>
<li>Default: (none)</li>
<li>Brightness level</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>contrast (float)<ul>
<li>Default: (none)</li>
<li>Contrast level</li>
</ul>
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<div class="fragment"><pre class="fragment">
driver
(
name "acts"
provides ["blobfinder:0"]
configfile "/tmp/myactsconfig"
)
</pre></div><dl class="author"><dt><b>Author:</b></dt><dd>Brian Gerkey </dd></dl>
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