Open AccessA rvand
Author(s) -
Jamzad Mansour,
Foroughnassiraei Amirali,
Chiniforooshan Ehsan,
Ghorbani Reza,
Kazemi Moslem,
Chitsaz Hamidreza,
Mobasser Farid,
Sadjad Sayyed
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v21i3.1522
Subject(s) - robot , software , microcontroller , soccer robot , mechanism (biology) , computer science , motion control , mobile robot , robot control , motion (physics) , artificial intelligence , simulation , control engineering , engineering , real time computing , embedded system , operating system , philosophy , epistemology
arvand is a robot specially designed and constructed for playing soccer in the medium‐size league according to RoboCup rules and regulations. This robot consists of a moving mechanism, motion‐control hardware, software, and a wireless communication system. The motion mechanism consists of a drive unit, a steer unit, and a castor wheel. Motion control is carried out by a special control board that uses two microcontrollers to carry out the software system decisions and transfers them to the robot mechanics. The software system performs real‐time object recognition at the rate of 16 frames a second. Playing algorithms are based on deterministic methods and communication among robots. We have constructed four such robots and successfully proved their performance at RoboCup‐99.