University of Plymouth Robot Football

12/03/2019

Hi All, Just to let you know that we are adding some new computer vision to our Scott robot. The attached video shows the first stage of optical flow field tracking of a moving target, against a background. You will see the background moves as we simulate the walking action of Scott. The target is still highlighted in the centre foreground, although other similar movements are highlighted in red also. This is the beginnings of making our robot have an attentional system.

12/03/2019

Scott Robot head camera system tracking moving target in optic flow field created by robot self motion

16/12/2018

Elves and Santa are alive and well at The University of Plymouth Electronics & Robotics rapid prototyping facility, pictured making mine-clearing robots, robot gliders and other robot gifts for Christmas! Happy Christmas to you all.

17/11/2018

Hey everyone, sorry to have been quiet recently. here is a report of progress:

We now have converted Scott (our teen-size robot) to ROS, and updated the dynamixel interface to the servos. We are in the process of adding a GPU to the vision processing stream. Then we will be able to test Scott's walking and basic vision capabilities.

Phil

28/07/2017

We held our second annual robotics week outreach event at Plymouth recently. Here is the video showing some of the exhibits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i5YZAvQpfg&feature=youtu.be

To celebrate the first UK Robotics Week (25 June - 1 July 2016) Plymouth University organises an afternoon of academic presentations, followed by a public ex...

21/07/2017

Hurrah! We have a new head for Scott, our teen/adult robot footballer. See the attached drawings and photos. Much testing and integration is now required, before we can even try and use the new design to play football. But progress is exciting. Looking forward to trying it all out! Phil

05/06/2017

Progress!! After a laboratory re-organisation we are making progress with a new head design for Scott. We have taken some time to engineer the new Plymouth OWL robot. It has two steerable eyes. We are in the process of adapting Scott to take the OWL eyes. They servos are fast (about half the speed of human eyes) and we should be able to track a moving ball. Check out the videos of students working on the OWL this last semester. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduEr32dk4g and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBRrzwK_Kjg&feature=youtu.be

Look out for the new head design coming soon!!
Phil Culverhouse

19/05/2015

Our qualification video for FIRA 2015 in South Korea!

Scott preparing for his first competition, FIRA 2015 in South Korea. A quick demonstration of Scott doing some of the events he will participate in. Hope to ...

22/04/2015

Mustachio Drake with his bigger brother Mustachio Scott!

16/04/2015

Scott learning to stand for the first time