Trigonometry technique for ball prediction in robot soccer

Abstract

The main challenge in a robot soccer competition is to estimate the best robot’s position according to two aspects: the ball and other robots positions given by visualize system and the game strategies. The ultimate aim is that to assign the right robot to the right position at the right time to win the ball for attacking or defending. Most of the time, the movements of the robots are determined by the position of the ball. The paper presents a ball position prediction technique based on trigonometry. We demonstrate the precision of the predicted ball position from the proposed technique and compare the precision result with those obtained from several existing techniques.