Which hardware would be best for tracking a golf ball?

Nhbills

January 16, 2020 02:57

Hello, I’m looking to experiment with tracking trajectory, distance, velocity, rotation of a golf ball. Would anyone have any advice on which product would be best for this application? Thank you

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MartyG

January 16, 2020 07:25

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The RealSense D435i camera would be the best choice, as it works well outdoors, has a wide field of view and a fast shutter suited to tracking fast moving objects. You can widen the view further by using multiple cameras and stitching their data together (e.g four cameras in a row for a 180 degree forward view or eight cameras in a circle for a 360 degree view).

It is possible to combine data from tens of cameras, so in theory a line of them could be arranged down the length of.a golf course or driving range if you wanted to expand the scope of the project to that complexity.

For tracking fast and small objects as small as a bee, the Chief Technical Officer at the RealSense Group at Intel has suggested operating the camera at 90 frames per second (FPS) at a resolution of 848x480. They offered stream setup scripting for doing so in the link below.

https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/4175#issuecomment-508997839
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