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Build Your Own Soccer-Playing Robot

Posted by michael on from the he-shoots...-he-scores dept.

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."

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  1. 5th? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wouldn't it be better to learn from the team who came first?

  2. Red Hat = embedded? by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 2, Insightful
    From the summary: "The robot's embedded operating system is Red Hat Linux enhanced with the RTLinuxPro real-time extension."

    Using Red Hat for embedding in a robot application? Sounds like an awful poor choice of tools, if you ask me.