Hull Pixelbot tracking for robot rugby

At the last hardware meetup we decided that it was time to get our robots playing rugby. The idea is that it is a team game, with members programming their robots to make plays in a playfield. .

We’ve no idea how it the game will actually be played but we have decided to find out by just doing it. Brian has done some sterling work (see above) with an image processing application that can now identify the top of the robot (see the bit in the green circle above. The next thing to do is to pick out the QR code and identify the robot. Then we send this position back to the robot to tell it where it is. This will make it possible to write programs that will make the robot head for different parts of the playfield.

We will be setting up our robot arena and doing some tracking experiments on Thursday next week (the 5th of December). If you want to come along and play your part in designing the game and how it works we’d love to see you. We start at 6:00 in the group work area in c4di.