Build Your Own Soccer-Playing Robot

An anonymous reader writes "This article by a Ph.D student at Shanghai JiaoTong University (SJTU) Research Institute of Robotics describes an RTLinux-powered robot that placed fifth in the most recent RoboCup competition. The robot has two color cameras for visual sensing along with a laser range finder (LRF) for goalkeeper location, and a wireless LAN allows communication among the robots on SJTU's team. The robot's embedded operating system is Red Hat Linux enhanced with the RTLinuxPro real-time extension."

Comments

Linux 1, Microsoft Nil

[tiktok]

They were experimenting with robot soccer players that ran on Windows, but unfortunately they couldn't get them to run for 90 minutes straight.

Re:Linux 1, Microsoft Nil

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL. Even Microsoft's own gaming development company made fun of the Blue screen in Halo 2 Zanzibar map.

Robo-Fans.

[Anonymous Coward]

Are they going to build robot fans that tear up the town when their team loses?

Andres Escobar

[Michael Hunt]

Now all we gotta do is wait for this thing to score an own goal and it'll get shot at the airport on its way home.

I love soccer fans :)

What's next?

[GuyMannDude]

First we got robot soldiers and now we got robot soccer players. What we really need are robotic Mexican soccer announcers:

cout << "He shoots!" << endl;
cout << "He scores!" << endl;
cout << "G";
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; ++i)
{
cout << "o";
}
cout << "al!" << endl;

GMD