Highly Interactive Robogames

This area belongs to the Robogames research line. We consider here projects developing robogames with a high level of interaction with the user.

Projects

RoboWII

The RoboWII line was born to exploit playful interaction between robot and players. In the last project of the line Deborah Zamponi and Cristian Mandelli produced a highly interactive robogame(RoboWII2.1), where a player has to prevent a mobile robot to reach its base, by shooting at it with different weapons, implemented by a WII Mote.

Jedi Training Robogame

The Jedi Training Robogame line, was aimed at implementing a Jedi Trainer for light saber usage. After some trials done by different students, DiegoMartinoia and DanieleCalandriello have developed the successful Jedi Robot Training 3.0, based on a flying quadrotor.

Robot Tower

In Robot Tower, a mobile robot should try to ruin down the enemy tower in a given amount of time. The human player has to prevent this by acquiring obstacles and putting them on the game field.

Pac-Bot

In Pac-Bot an autonomous robot drives in a maze looking for food and a tele-operated robots looks for it. The physical version of a popular arcade game, with inverted roles.

KartBot

KartBot is inspired by Nintendo Mario Kart, and brings to real those ideas. All computation runs onboard.

Drone Laser Game

Drone_Laser_Game is inspired by laser games. Here, an autonomous drone chases a remote-controlled one. All computation runs onboard.

Selected movies

More are available from the single project pages, as well as on the AIRLab channel on You Tube.

A test of the Jedi Robot Training 3.0 project. Notice that it is working outside, with confusing colors in background. The system is quite robust, and very playable. It has been tested also in public exhibitions like the 2011 Open day at Politecnico di Milano. External link

The result of the RoboTower project. The game is very playable, and has been tested at Robotica 2012 and 2012 Open day at Politecnico di Milano. Unexpected behaviors come from the players. Sound plays an important role. External link