Autonomous Foosball Table

[HardOCP News]

Nothing to do on a Friday night? Everyone has plans for the evening except you? Have no fear, robotic foosball is here!!! Hit the link for a video of RoboFoos in action. Thanks to Xrave for the link.

Our senior design project (at Georgia Tech) was an open ended design. We chose to create an autonomous foosball table. The ball as well as the opponent players are tracked in a vision system -- a downward looking webcam. All the main processing is done on an 800 MHz pentium 3 PC in Java, using the Java Media Framework. Once the processing is finished, the PC issues commands to a PIC microcontroller across a serial line. The microcontroller then issues commands to servos to move or kick.

 

[FrozenLiquidity]

That's pretty sweet, but there's no way it would provide me with any competition.

 

[Sparky]

That's pretty sweet, but there's no way it would provide me with any competition.

I will provide you with all the competition you can handle!!

 

[cocheese256]

That is very cool, but not nearly fast enough. When we play, we make sure to tell people not to stand at the ends of the table. Sometimes balls would fly from us getting way to aggressive