Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

2 of 129 comments (clear)

  1. They also tried Macs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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

    They also tried Macs and they ran for 90 minutes gay.

  2. michael moore by dlt074 · · Score: -1, Troll

    i wonder what michael moore has to say about this.
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=136984&cid=114 45524 surely this is yet another evil Bush administration plot.