/ATMatCreator

April Tag Mat Creator

Primary LanguageMATLABBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" LicenseBSD-3-Clause

ATMatCreator

April Tag Mat Creator code written for CMSC828T

Pre-requisites

Capture Background Image

  1. Install Fireshot Google Chrome plugin (recommended) or Fireshot Firefox plugin (you need this to download high res background images).
  2. Go to Chengfolio.
  3. Select Map type to Satellite Map.
  4. Zoom to level of detail desired (Depends on how high you want to fly).
  5. Select the necessary resolution - 5000x5000 recommended on a 64GB RAM PC. Try the highest resolution for which you don't fail to capture.
  6. Click capture entire page on Fireshot plugin and save as pdf.

Reference: How to export High quality Google Map Images

Download AprilTag Library

  1. Download 36h11 Tag family (recommended) from UMich EECS repository
  2. Extract the files from the downloaded tar.

Running ATMatCreator Code

  1. Open Wrapper.m

For the first time running the code:

  • Change %InstallDeps; to InstallDeps
  • Change %PS2PDF; to PS2PDF;
  • Change ExtractPNGsFlag = 0; to ExtractPNGsFlag = 1;
  • Set TagSize, SpaceBetweenTags and GridSize to desired values (Note all sizes are in m)