Introduction: How to Make Soccer Robot -A Soccer Robot for ROBOCUP

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Hey Everyone..!!!The news is that We have some great and most exciting events coming ahead.Some of us are very curious about robotics.Sometimes just for the fun and sometimes for the sake of academic projects.And believe me when first time i made a robot i was too much excited to play with it.After that i participated in some robotics competitions and then i heard about something that could be theDream.That is something Big..!!.I hope You are aware about this event.Yes i'm talking about Robocup. I made a robot for small soccer league that was held in my institute.On that basis we were preparing for the robocup. So here i'm going to tell you about small soccer league (SSL).After that we will see some setup for robocup senior category.we will design an omni directional robot for small size soccer league.
There are many parts of this project.so that i can not cover all that here.
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Step 1: ​Introduction to Soccer Robot and Robocup SSL

This guide is based on Small Size League (SSL) and making of Soccer playing Robot .The entire system has been divided into four main parts, the first one is Vision system second one is Artificial Intelligence (AI) system, third is Referee Box and finally five remotely controlled robots. It includes mechanics, electronics, mechatronics and programming skills The vision system is digitally processed with two signals capturing from camera mounted on top of the field. The position and orientation of ball and robots are computed by the vision system through camera. The information of vision system is transmitted to AI system which is responsible for making, deciding and providing the strategic game decisions. The roles of robots provide the teams to be acted according to the commands transmitted by database. The controls are goalkeeper, defense and forward. The main factor is to avoid the collision with the robots and specifically avoid the collisions with opponents. The decisions for game are to play with commands given to the wireless receiver. The robot is capable enough to execute the commands that converted by the AI system. This cycle is repeated 30 times per second. Moreover, the referee transmits relevant decisions such as penalties, goals, start of game, end of game, etc. These commands are sent to the AI system through a serial link. All robots are responsible and capable enough to execute effectively the commands sent via AI system. Our robot includes specialized and effective electronics with such accuracy to communicate with remote computer and control locomotion and all defined actions. Similarly mechanical section which is explained ahead and has four main parts movements, control of ball, shoot and protection, strong chases and reduced friction Omni wheels.

Step 2: Contents:

This guide will cover the following topics:

Introduction to Soccer Robot and Robocup SSL

Basics of Robot

Manual Controlling of Robot

Basics of Autonomous Robots

Mechanical design Mechanical Parts Designing of robot base Omni Wheels design

Dribbler Kicker

Electronic design Electronic Parts

Wireless Communication using nRF24L01

Solenoid

Ball Detector Circuit

Booster

Motor Driver

Programming and Algorithms

I couldn't cover all these sections here because i have already covered.For full guided post follow the link below:

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