Morris Minor Owners Club

its come to the time whereby i have to decide on a final year uni project, for which ive decided ot do somethign abit unusual, abit big and alot tricky.
im goign to take a henry vacuum cleaner, fit it with a couple of motors, a car battery, some infra red sensors so it wont crash, and, im hoping, a strimmer engine and a dynamo to keep the battery topped up. along with a basic gyroscope.
the tricky bit is the next part.

i want to add a cmos camera to detect colours, only basic, so that, for example if im wearing a red t shirt, and i kick the thing over (sending the gyroscope mad!) it will in future avoid all red things it sees, however if i wear a blue t shirt and pick it back up, it will then head towards everything blue that it sees.

i want to controll the whole thign with one or more PIC chips, my problem being i dont believe the chips will have enough ram for processing the camera image.
i dont want to be constantly processing the camera, onyl when the gyro pics up a big change.

the amount of processing power needed for mobile / dynamic image recognition is massive - and that's just black and white.

These systems have already been developed for crash avoidance systems on cars - e.g are able to recognise pedestrians and road designation to see iof a pedestrian is walking into the road in the path of the car.

have you considered fpga ?

What I was thinking was when a massive changing the gyro is measured, powering the cam, one quick snapshot, seeing what ever hex value is most common, ie red blue ect and then avoiding, aiming for it accordingly.