Smart camera for Trax playing robot

Smart cameras are cameras which not only perform the sensing, but also integrate much of the image analysis and control. This paper describes the replacement of a conventional vision system within a Trax playing robot with an FPGA based smart camera. Integrated within the camera are the following functions: camera calibration, tile detection and localization, human player detection, robot control, and game play. The result is that the smart camera not only captures the images, but also analyses the image data and performs all of the functionality required to run the robot completely autonomously.