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Designing an omnidirectional vision system for a goalkeeper robot. (English) Zbl 1050.68828

Birk, Andreas (ed.) et al., RoboCup 2001: Robot soccer world cup V. 5th robot world cup soccer games and conferences, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA, USA, August 2–10, 2001. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-43912-9). Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2377, 81-91 (2002).
Summary: The aim of this paper is to provide a guideline for the design of an omnidirectional vision system for the Robocup domain. We report the design steps undertaken, with a detailed description of the design of an omnidirectional mirror with a custom profile. In the second part, we present the software written to exploit the properties of the designed mirror. The application for which the vision system is designed is the Middle-Size Robocup Championship. The task performed by the vision system is to localise the robot and to locate the ball and other robots in the field of play. Several practical tricks and suggestions are provided.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0997.68654].

MSC:

68U99 Computing methodologies and applications
68T40 Artificial intelligence for robotics
68T45 Machine vision and scene understanding