Digitized Honors Theses (2002-2017)
Date of Award
8-2004
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Degree Name
BS
Department
Computer Science
Faculty Mentor
Michael Doran, Ph.D.
Advisor(s)
David Langan, Ph.D., Michael Ward, M.S.
Abstract
Robo-Billiards is a competition in which participants use a remote-controlled robot to place billiard balls in cans found at the comers of a playing field. The motivation of this project is to eventually develop a computerized system that will control a robot in the Robo-Billiards competition. To accomplish this goal, a vision system was constructed in order to acquire sensory data in a Robo-Billiards environment. The vision system has the capability to locate the edges of the playing field, discover the positions and identities of billiard balls using a grid system, and track the cue ball. Numerous tests were performed to evaluate the accuracy of the created vision system. It was concluded that the vision system could locate the initial positions of a set of billiard balls accurately enough to facilitate the capture of the balls by a computer-controlled robot in the future.
Recommended Citation
Brown, Anthony, "Using Image Analysis and a Grid System to Detect Environmental Objects" (2004). Digitized Honors Theses (2002-2017). 91.
https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/honors_theses-boundprint/91
Comments
© 2004 Anthony Kurt Brown ALL RIGHTS RESERVED