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Hello

we are using OpenMV4 H7 R2 for Apriltag detection for our robot using Nvidia Jetson, which is more less the same as the example, just reading serial result of AprilTag.

However we have already found the code has reset back to “blink example” after a random period of time, which has happened two times and we are not sure why. we didn’t modify / edit the code.

# AprilTags Example
#
# This example shows the power of the OpenMV Cam to detect April Tags
# on the OpenMV Cam M7. The M4 versions cannot detect April Tags.

import sensor, image, time, math # AprilTag

# AprilTag
sensor.reset()
sensor.set_pixformat(sensor.GRAYSCALE)
sensor.set_framesize(sensor.QQVGA) # we run out of memory if the resolution is much bigger...
sensor.skip_frames(time = 2000)
sensor.set_auto_gain(False)  # must turn this off to prevent image washout...
sensor.set_auto_whitebal(False)  # must turn this off to prevent image washout...
clock = time.clock()


# Note! Unlike find_qrcodes the find_apriltags method does not need lens correction on the image to work.

# What's the difference between tag families? Well, for example, the TAG16H5 family is effectively
# a 4x4 square tag. So, this means it can be seen at a longer distance than a TAG36H11 tag which
# is a 6x6 square tag. However, the lower H value (H5 versus H11) means that the false positve
# rate for the 4x4 tag is much, much, much, higher than the 6x6 tag. So, unless you have a
# reason to use the other tags families just use TAG36H11 which is the default family.

# The AprilTags library outputs the pose information for tags. This is the x/y/z translation and
# x/y/z rotation. The x/y/z rotation is in radians and can be converted to degrees. As for
# translation the units are dimensionless and you must apply a conversion function.

# f_x is the x focal length of the camera. It should be equal to the lens focal length in mm
# divided by the x sensor size in mm times the number of pixels in the image.
# The below values are for the OV7725 camera with a 2.8 mm lens.

# f_y is the y focal length of the camera. It should be equal to the lens focal length in mm
# divided by the y sensor size in mm times the number of pixels in the image.
# The below values are for the OV7725 camera with a 2.8 mm lens.

# c_x is the image x center position in pixels.
# c_y is the image y center position in pixels.

f_x = (2.8 / 3.984) * 160 # find_apriltags defaults to this if not set
f_y = (2.8 / 2.952) * 120 # find_apriltags defaults to this if not set
c_x = 160 * 0.5 # find_apriltags defaults to this if not set (the image.w * 0.5)
c_y = 120 * 0.5 # find_apriltags defaults to this if not set (the image.h * 0.5)



def degrees(radians):
    return (180 * radians) / math.pi

while(True):
    clock.tick()
    hasTag = False
    img = sensor.snapshot()
    for tag in img.find_apriltags(fx=f_x, fy=f_y, cx=c_x, cy=c_y): # defaults to TAG36H11
        hasTag = True
        img.draw_rectangle(tag.rect(), color = (255, 0, 0))
        img.draw_cross(tag.cx(), tag.cy(), color = (0, 255, 0))
        print_args = (tag.x_translation(), tag.y_translation(), tag.z_translation(), \
            degrees(tag.x_rotation()), degrees(tag.y_rotation()), degrees(tag.z_rotation()), \
            tag.id())
        # Translation units are unknown. Rotation units are in degrees.
        print("Tx: %f, Ty %f, Tz %f, Rx %f, Ry %f, Rz %f, id %i" % print_args)
    #print(clock.fps())
    if not hasTag:
        print("no Tag")
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That can happen if the filesystem gets corrupted the storage is formatted and reset to the factory settings (i.e. main.py), if for example it’s not safely-removed while writing files etc…

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we are just reading serial data from OpenMv, did not write anything to it. We will try to unmount the disk at startup to see if it would happen again.

thanks