24 SEP.05 Robotics for Air Hockey reference materials (new materials added at bottom of document) What is Motion Detection? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_detection robotarm.pdf http://www.roboticsclub.org/oldprojects/20032004/hockey2/robotarm.pdf Building a Robotic Arm to Play Air Hockey Summary: "In the mid-1980s, the CMU Robotics Club built a robotic air hockey table..." Related references: http://www.roboticsclub.org/oldprojects/20032004/hockey2/ http://www.roboticsclub.org/oldprojects/20032004/hockey2/manual-speed-test.AVI http://www.roboticsclub.org/oldprojects/20032004/hockey2/not_us-hockeyfullsmall.avi (view this one!) http://www.roboticsclub.org/oldprojects/20032004/hockey2/conceptart/ robotarm2.pdf http://www.roboticsclub.org/oldprojects/20032004/hockey2/robotarm2.pdf Programming a Robotic Arm to Play Air Hockey iros02.pdf http://www.cns.atr.jp/~aude/publications/iros02.pdf Humanoid Robot Learning and Game Playing Using PC-Based Vision cca2000.pdf http://robot0.ge.uiuc.edu/~spong/Conference_Proceedings/cca2000.pdf On the Controllability of an Air Hockey Puck mechano99.pdf http://robot0.ge.uiuc.edu/~spong/Conference_Proceedings/mechano99.pdf Bipedal Locomotion, Robot Gymnastics, and Robot Air Hockey: A Rapprochement (ignore grammatical and typographical errors in this document) Air Hockey Can Be Deep http://www.engr.uiuc.edu/communications/outlook/Text,%20Fall%2000/hockey.htm http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/alumni/w98-99/hockey.html On the Controllability of an Air Hockey Puck http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:wiKZ9RanjZAJ:robot0.ge.uiuc.edu/~spong/Conference_Proceedings/cca2000.pdf+air+hockey+puck+velocity&hl=en Learning from Observation Using Primitives http://www.cns.atr.jp/~dbent/ Miscellaneous other (not in any particular order)... http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~kjg/CS333_SP97/hockey.html http://lims.mech.northwestern.edu/~lynch/research/flatland/setup.html http://www.ee.washington.edu/research/arcs/education.html http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/cog/VisionSystem/motion_detection.html http://www-cv.mech.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/research/tracking_group/tracking.html http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/resources/courses/robotics/ http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/resources/courses/robotics/doc/opencvdocs/ref/OpenCVRef_Motion_Tracking.htm http://www.cs.csi.cuny.edu/~zhangs/ Motion Detection Software Project http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/Labs/Isl/Project/Projects_done/motion_detector/mdu.htm Motion Detection Algorithm based on Background Estimation http://stevethornburg.com/robotics/michael/ http://www.ensta.fr/~richefeu/Publications/Richefeu_ICVGIP2004.pdf Robust Least Squares http://stevethornburg.com/robotics/michael/ http://www.ecit.qub.ac.uk/ResearchDevelopment/Imageandvisionsystems/DocumentDownloads/Filetoupload,16164,en.pdf Motion Detection and Representing Moving Objects from Video http://stevethornburg.com/robotics/michael/ http://www.spatial.maine.edu/~hari/Object-trajectory-identification.pdf Motion detection benchmark data set http://muscle.prip.tuwien.ac.at/data_description/ACV1/ACV_MOTIONDETECTIONBENCHMA.HTML 29 SEP.05 Added the following PDF documents, as referenced in Vision Systems Design http://www.vision-systems.com wp_216.pdf Choosing the Right Image Acquisition Technology (09/23/2005, Dalsa Coreco) wp_215.pdf Real-Time, High-Speed Image Processing (09/23/2005, Dalsa Coreco) wp_213.pdf How to Plan Your PC-Based Machine Vision System (09/20/2005, Data Translation) [END]