VoR12’s documentation

The Vor12 project, a mobile video camera created for object tracking experiments.

Contents:

Introduction

The VoR12 project is a mobile video camera. It uses two Dynamixel AX-12 actuators and the OpenCV computer vision library for object tracking experiments.

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Note

This project is still in beta stage, so the API is not finalized yet.

Dependencies

Note

If you use pip to install VoR12, PyAX-12 and Numpy will be automatically downloaded and installed (see the following install section).

OpenCV cannot be installed with pip, thus you have to install it manually.

Installation

Gnu/Linux

You can install, upgrade, uninstall VoR12 with these commands (in a terminal):

pip install --pre vor12
pip install --upgrade vor12
pip uninstall vor12

Or, if you have downloaded the VoR12 source code:

python3 setup.py install

Windows

You can install, upgrade, uninstall VoR12 with these commands (in a command prompt):

py -m pip install --pre vor12
py -m pip install --upgrade vor12
py -m pip uninstall vor12

Or, if you have downloaded the VoR12 source code:

py setup.py install

MacOSX

You can install, upgrade, uninstall VoR12 with these commands (in a terminal):

pip install --pre vor12
pip install --upgrade vor12
pip uninstall vor12

Or, if you have downloaded the VoR12 source code:

python3 setup.py install

VoR12 API

VoR12 provides classes which are usable by third party tools.

Note

VoR12 is still in beta stage, so the API is not finalized yet.

Modules:

Packet module

Connection module

Packet module

Developer’s notes

Source code

The source code is currently available on GitHub under the terms and conditions of the MIT license. Fork away!

Bug reports

To search for bugs or report them, please use the VoR12 Bug Tracker at:

Contribute

VoR12 is written for Python versions 3.4 and above. Python 2.x is not supported.

The TODO.md file contains the TODO list.

All contributions should at least comply with the following PEPs:

  • PEP8 “Python’s good practices”
  • PEP257 “Docstring Conventions”
  • PEP287 “reStructuredText Docstring Format”

All contribution should be properly documented and tested with unittest and/or doctest.

pylint, pep8 and pyflakes should also be used to check the quality of each module.

Changes

In collaboration with http://www.vorobotics.com

Indices and tables

Credits

Created by Jérémie Decock.

License

The VoR12 library is provided under the terms and conditions of the MIT license:

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2015 Jérémie DECOCK <jd.jdhp@gmail.com>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.