The implementation of image processing technique for the Kid Size category with real validation using Bioloid ROBOTIS Premium platform

• Grant number: 16/26184-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2017
• End date: April 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: Wagner Tanaka Botelho
• Grantee: Gilmar Correia Jeronimo
• Host Institution: Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição (CMCC). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The robotic field tries, as one of its functions, to stimulate knowledge and learning in science for kids, teenagers and adults. The Robot World Cup Initiative (RoboCup) emerged in this context, but to stimulate the Artificial Intelligent (AI) area using robot soccer to improve and train the knowledge in a pleasantly way. In this research project, the real humanoid robot was built using the Bioloid ROBOTIS Premium platform. The main target of this robot is to play soccer in the Kid Size category of RoboCup Soccer League. Also, it should be able to identify all elements in the soccer field, such as the ball, the field itself, crossbars of the goal, the opponent players and the teammates. Thus, the identification should be performed using image processing through some AI technique to be defined during the development of this project. Therefore, in order to make this task possible, the robots use a PIXY camera installed on its head with two servomotors responsible for allowing the robot to have a horizontal and vertical vision field of 180 degrees. This camera should process the image and send the position and distance of the object to the Raspberry Pi, responsible to control all the servomotors of the robot. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

JERONIMO, GILMAR CORREIA; BERTOLUCCI CONSONI, PAULO EDUARDO; FIALHO GONCALVES, RODRIGO LUIS; BOTELHO, WAGNER TANAKA; BRUNO MARIETTO, MARIA DAS GRACAS; LATIFI, S. Humanoid Soccer Player and Educational Robotic: Development an Architecture to Connect the Dynamixel AX-12A Servo Motor from ROBOTIS to the Raspberry Pi 3B. 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-NEW GENERATIONS (ITNG 2019), v. 800, p. 7-pg., 2019-01-01. (16/26184-9)

JERONIMO, GILMAR CORREIA; BOTELHO, WAGNER TANAKA; PIMENTEL, EDSON PINHEIRO; MAIA DOS SANTOS, THAYNARA CRISTINA; IEEE. Efficient Objects Identification for a KidSize Humanoid Soccer Robot: Using Feedforward Neural Networks with Image Segmentation. 16TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL, AUTOMATION, ROBOTICS AND VISION (ICARCV 2020), v. N/A, p. 6-pg., 2020-01-01. (16/26184-9)