F-180 Robocup Soccer Robot

The robot is conformal to the regulations of the Robocup F-180 league (at least most of it). The system consists of the playground, a host computer for image processing / strategy control and the robot itself.



The robot is controlled by a realtime feedback loop. The host computer gets video images from a video camera fixed above the playground. The objects in the images are detected by the host computer that now calculates the appropriate speed and direction for the robot to shoot a goal. This data is transmitted to the robot by a wireless RS-232 interface. The robot's MCU cotrols its servo motors with a PID regulation algorithm.



I also built a basic simulator for the application. See a screenshot below. A java applet that shows the robots play is coming soon.



Thank you to Dorothea Kolossa and Prof. Reinhold Orglmeister from TU Berlin who made this project possible.