Authors

• Georg Klima {gklima at cosy sbg ac at}
• Krystian Szczurek {szczurek at cosy sbg ac at}
• Peter Wild {pwild at cosy sbg ac at}

Description

main sensory system for navigation. Motivated by soccer-playing robots (RoboCup) we construct a robot able to recognize and catch a ball distinguishable from the environment by its color and shape. For computation intensive real-time image processing and object recognition, an external computer (notebook/PC) is used, which then transmits its navigation commands via an IR link to the RCX. Control software on notebook/PC is written in Java using Giotto for exact specification of timing behavior.

Project status

PC-RCX Communication

Status: finished.

JMF Image acquisition

Status: finished.

Image segmentation and Object recognition

Status: finished.

Controller and Giotto timing program

Status: finished.

Downloads:

• soccerbot_paper.pdf Project paper (600 KB)
• soccerbot_project.zip Source code + binaries (600 KB)
• soccerbot_slides.pdf Presentation slides (400 KB)

Video Clips:

• SoccerBot.mp4 (33 MB)