Toward a Robot Basketball Game

Abstract

This paper aims to establish a demonstration of a robot basketball game and propose ideas for further development. The research continues our previous effort on applying visual servoing techniques for the mobile robots to achieve the task of basketball shooting. In addition, competition with opponents and cooperation with teammates are considered. Instead of using global view or panorama cameras, every robot player is equipped with a local view camera. Also instead of using a centralized controller for teammates, each robot is controlled by its own controller.