TY - GEN
T1 - Robot soccer anywhere
T2 - Opto-Ireland 2005: Photonic Engineering
AU - Dragone, Mauro
AU - O'Donoghue, Ruadhan
AU - Leonard, John J.
AU - O'Hare, Gregory M. P.
AU - Duffy, Brian R.
AU - Patrikalakis, Andrew
AU - Leederkerken, Jacques
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The paper describes an ongoing effort to enable autonomous mobile robots to play soccer in unstructured, everyday environments. Unlike conventional robot soccer competitions that are usually held on purpose-built robot soccer "fields", in our work we seek to develop the capability for robots to demonstrate aspects of soccer-playing in more diverse environments, such as schools, hospitals, or shopping malls, with static obstacles (furniture) and dynamic natural obstacles (people). This problem of "Soccer Anywhere" presents numerous research challenges including: (1) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in dynamic, unstructured environments, (2) software control architectures for decentralized, distributed control of mobile agents, (3) integration of vision-based object tracking with dynamic control, and (4) social interaction with human participants. In addition to the intrinsic research merit of these topics, we believe that this capability would prove useful for outreach activities, in demonstrating robotics technology to primary and secondary school students, to motivate them to pursue careers in science and engineering.
AB - The paper describes an ongoing effort to enable autonomous mobile robots to play soccer in unstructured, everyday environments. Unlike conventional robot soccer competitions that are usually held on purpose-built robot soccer "fields", in our work we seek to develop the capability for robots to demonstrate aspects of soccer-playing in more diverse environments, such as schools, hospitals, or shopping malls, with static obstacles (furniture) and dynamic natural obstacles (people). This problem of "Soccer Anywhere" presents numerous research challenges including: (1) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in dynamic, unstructured environments, (2) software control architectures for decentralized, distributed control of mobile agents, (3) integration of vision-based object tracking with dynamic control, and (4) social interaction with human participants. In addition to the intrinsic research merit of these topics, we believe that this capability would prove useful for outreach activities, in demonstrating robotics technology to primary and secondary school students, to motivate them to pursue careers in science and engineering.
U2 - 10.1117/12.608404
DO - 10.1117/12.608404
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9780819458124
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE
SP - 255
EP - 264
BT - Opto-Ireland 2005
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 4 April 2005 through 6 April 2005
ER -