A project for CMPUT 312 - Introduction to Robotics and Mechatronics at the University of Alberta
Created by Cole Dewis, Joey Quinlan, Arshia Kamal
This project is an autonomous system where two robots play a foosball/pong like game against each other, attempting to either score on each other, or pass for as long as possible.
This project makes use of forward and inverse kinematics, thread programming, computer vision, trajectory estimation, and more.
We use two LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Bricks and one Arduino UNO board for hardware. These interact with LEGO motors and NEMA 17 Stepper motors to move the joints of our robot.
For a more in depth explanation of the project, you can read our paper!
Cole: Robot kinematics (\kinematics), embedded communications (\arduino_client, arduino_server.py, \brick, brick_server.py, \messages), state machine and robot logic (robot.py).
Joey: Computer Vision, Ball Tracking. (\vision)
Arshia: Ball Trajectory Analysis. (\trajectory)
A video demo of our project can be seen here.
More pictures can be found here if you are interested.