Bill's Thesis: A Robot Soccer System for Research & Education

    I'd like to thank both the Intelligent Systems Center and the Smart Engineering Systems Labratory for funding and materials used in my research.

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    Abstract:
    The system presented here is intended to provide a reasonable set of tools for developing a simple robot soccer system for research and educational purposes. The system presented conforms to the small-size (F-180) league of RoboCup. This system is developed around Khepera micro-robots and utilizes an overhead vision system and remote communication with the robots. It comes with example source code for interfacing the overhead vision system (which typically runs on a low-cost Linux workstation) and the Khepera robots via radio communication. All components can be controlled from Matlab to facilitate rapid prototyping or from more conventional languages such as C and C++.

    The components of the system may also be used individually in order to quickly develop an initial visual system for use with other robots or to provide a different means of communications and control for the Khepera robots for Non-RoboSoccer research.


    A simple demonstration of the system in use. In this case a Khepera is running the simplistic kicker program (blue path) and has kicked the ball (red path) toward the goal. A goalee, running the simplistic goalee program has intercepted the kick (yellow path).

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