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Welcome to the tracking_a_pendulum wiki!

This project involves tracking a pendulum’s motion using a Raspberry Pi Camera V2 and OpenCV for image processing, then calculating gravitational acceleration by averaging the oscillation periods.

Developed as the first assignment for the course SSC0715 - Intelligent Sensors, taught by Prof. Dr. Fernando dos Santos Osório in the second semester of 2024, this project was created by Carlos Henrique Craveiro Aquino Veras, a Computer Engineering undergraduate student at the São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC - USP) and the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Computation (ICMC - USP), University of São Paulo.

The wiki includes the following sections:

• Camera Setup

  Overview of the camera initial setup on the raspberry-pi, python configuration and basic usage

• Code Details

  Explanation of the key code components and algorithms used in the project.

• Image Processing

  Description of the image processing pipeline used to segment the pendulum to measure its position.

• Pendulum Physics

  An exploration of the physics principles applied on the project and a napkin calculation of the minimum required frame-rate.