Stipendiaten 2005
Dapeng Zhang
- Dapeng Zhang
Projekttitel: Learning by Imitation for Playing Table Soccer in Dynamic, Noisy, and Unpredictable Environments
Hochschule: Universität Freiburg
Studiengang: Artificial Intelligence (Promotion)
Kurzbeschreibung
Table Soccer is a popular game usually seen in arcades and bars. At the University of Freiburg a table soccer robot was developed who controls one side of the table soccer game, playing with human players on the other side. The robot can challenge even advanced human players because it has faster reactions than most human players.
In his project, Dapeng Zhang improves the playing skills of the robot using learning by imitation. The table soccer robot has less degree of freedom, faster speed, and higher accuracy than a humanoid robot thus making the technical challenge different. Furthermore the ball moving in a continuous space is taken into consideration in the imitation, while most applications using imitation only consider the movements of actuators.
Several steps are needed to realize the proposed project. Firstly, hardware improvements enable the robot to observe the movements of the human players and increase the accuracy of the ball recognition. Then, learning by imitation could be implemented by the segmentation and interpretation of the data, and action replication. The adaptation of the ball position could be considered in the data representation. Finally, to choose a proper action in the games, an action selection mechanism is implemented.
