Development of a cheap on-board vision mobile robot for robotic soccer research

Author

Nakamura, T. ; Terada, K. ; Shibata, A. ; Morimoto, J. ; Adachi, H. ; Takeda, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst., Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

13-17 Oct 1998

Firstpage

431

Abstract

To promote robotic soccer research, we need a low cost and portable robot with some sensors and a communication device. To date, there is no platform for robotic soccer. Therefore, each research must build his own robots or utilize robots which are commercially available. This paper describes how to construct a robot system which includes a lightweight and low-cost mobile robot with visual, tactile sensors, TCP/IP communication device, and portable PC where Linux is running. An example of the developed soccer robot system and preliminary experimental results are also shown

Keywords

games of skill; microcomputer applications; mobile robots; robot vision; sport; tactile sensors; transport protocols; Linux; TCP/IP communication device; on-board vision mobile robot; portable PC; robotic soccer research; tactile sensors; visual sensors; Artificial intelligence; Centralized control; Communication system control; Control system synthesis; Costs; Linux; Mobile robots; Power system modeling; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1998. Proceedings., 1998 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4465-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.1998.724657

Filename

724657