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Using the fusionTrack system
In this chapter is explained how to use the fusionTrack. It is assumed that the fusionTrack is correctly setup
as described in Chapter 5 and the software on the host PC is correctly installed as indicated in Chapter 6.
Finally, the Ethernet card is configured as indicated in Section 5.4. The communication between the PC
and the fusionTrack device may be blocked by the PC firewall. The fusionTrack device is started by setting
the power switch on the ‘ON’ position (see Figure 3.3). The fusionTrack device is ready to be used once:
- the device beeps twice;
- the Device Status LED (see Section 3.2.3) appears in solid green.
If the Device Status LED blinks, is red, if the fusionTrack beeps continuously or the situation is not corre-
sponding to the described working state, please refer to Chapter 18. Switching off the device is simply
done by setting the power switch on the ‘OFF’ position (see Figure 3.3).
The default parameters have been chosen to ensure optimal
tracking performances. Changing them might impact the
performances of the fusionTrack system.
The fusionTrack device must be cleaned as described in
Chapter 17.
The Atracsys
SDK
is shipped with precompiled softwares. From the install directory they can be found
in the relative path
fusionTrack SDK/bin
. Their use is described in the following two sections. Each soft-
ware can take at least an additional configuration file as argument, using the
-c/--config path_to_file
.
The configuration files are described in . This configuration file
allows to set option values, including an alternate IP for the device (see Chapter 15). Other arguments
are described when calling the software with the
-h/--
help
switch.
8.1 The fusionTrack system options
This section describes the options available for the fusionTrack. It must be noted that some options are not
available depending on the exact fusionTrack model and firmware version. The options are split into five
categories:
1. Library related options (e.g. UDP local port);
2. Device related options (e.g. integration time);
3. Detection stage related options (e.g. min / max size of the blobs);
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