A Novel Method for Visioned Robot as a Soccer Player

This paper introduces methods to recognize the objects in a football field, by the aid of vision. Robot football is a challenging task in the world of autonomous robots and related research areas. One of the main problems in this task is to determine the presence and the location of objects from the robot’s point of view. Our mobile robot needs to know where it is located, where the ball target object is and the distance between the robot and the ball. A webcam is mounted on the robot that captures the surrounding of the robot. The objects in the image are the light gray floor and a red ball. The image is then processed to identify the presence of a red ball. Based on the position of the ball the control commands are given to the robot. The direction in which the ball is present is found by calculating the angle between the robot and the ball. The robot then moves towards the ball and kicks it.