ve4cib
February 10th, 2012, 10:34 PM
I thought I'd share this video with you:
http://youtu.be/D4xaaJNBhlk
It is, to the best of my knowledge, the first autonomous humanoid robot ice hockey player in the world. (We're Canadian, so I suppose ice hockey is only a natural thing for us to try to do, eh?)
The robot uses open-source software (it uses Xubuntu 11.10 for the OS, and all of the control code is written in C++ using open-source libraries like Espeak and OpenCV) and was created for the ICRA 2012 DARwIn-OP Humanoid Appliance Challenge. The competition challenges teams to create a novel application for humanoid robots. This video is our team's submission.
Finalists will be chosen sometime in March, with the final competition and presentations in May at ICRA 2012.
Obviously we've got a lot of room for improvement, but I'm pretty happy with the progress we've made so far. Getting a robot to balance on skate blades at all is (unsurprisingly) a fairly difficult challenge. But we're confident we can do it.
http://youtu.be/D4xaaJNBhlk
It is, to the best of my knowledge, the first autonomous humanoid robot ice hockey player in the world. (We're Canadian, so I suppose ice hockey is only a natural thing for us to try to do, eh?)
The robot uses open-source software (it uses Xubuntu 11.10 for the OS, and all of the control code is written in C++ using open-source libraries like Espeak and OpenCV) and was created for the ICRA 2012 DARwIn-OP Humanoid Appliance Challenge. The competition challenges teams to create a novel application for humanoid robots. This video is our team's submission.
Finalists will be chosen sometime in March, with the final competition and presentations in May at ICRA 2012.
Obviously we've got a lot of room for improvement, but I'm pretty happy with the progress we've made so far. Getting a robot to balance on skate blades at all is (unsurprisingly) a fairly difficult challenge. But we're confident we can do it.