Introduction

Hi!

In this blog, I will be demonstrating my progress for the last semester of my final year as a Robotics student at Middlesex University. This blog will solely focus on the project development of creating a robotic system that will allow a serial manipulator play air hockey against a human opponent. 

Currently, this project can be divided into 3 main tasks:

1. Track the location of the puck within the working space during live demo
2. Implement a trajectory prediction in 2-D Cartesian space to identify where the robot should position itself in relation to the position of the puck
3. Create a graphical user interface (GUI) to allow human opponent to easily set up and play a game of air hockey against the robot.

By next week, I will research exiting robotic systems to understand what the creator(s) of the system have done to solve such tasks and their reasoning for it.

Note: This blog will not start at Week 1 but at Week 14 to coincide with the university calendar.

Immanuel