The snooker robot roject, way ahead of its time, is a giant step ahead for both cue sorts as well as robotics. The use of this technology is in training and system design and implementation in both fields. The project was the brain-child of Professor K. Khodabandehloo at the Mechanical Department of the University of Bristol. The project is an on-going project. The information presented here is only a part of the research effort that was carried out between 1985 and 1988. The main participants in the project during this period included Prof. Khodabandehloo, Ian Rennell, Kenneth Ho, and our chief technician Terry Gorman. There were many others who helped out in the project including the undergraduate students at Bristol, IBM(UK), Automatix and the BBC.
The main objectives of the project is to:
to demonstrate the principles of Aritificial Intelligence in Robotics.
to demonstrate the viability of using intellgient robot system in a specific domain with existing hardware and software.
Constraints: use off-the-shelf robot and vision systems.
For some great snapshots of the robot in action, be sure to visit the following site:
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