Hello everyone,
I have been a permanent participant in competitive programming for many years now. I have been participating in ACM-ICPC for 3 years now, and managed to qualify for the world finals 2017.
Now that I have graduated from the department of Computer and Automation Engineering in Damascus University, I want to share with you my graduation project: badminton playing robot. In this project I used many algorithms that I learned from competitive programming (such as BFS, LIS and of course a lot of geometry).
We used LIS to filter noise data of shuttle detection and BFS,DFS to implement Indoor Location System for robot tracking and queries like sum of sub-rectangle in an array, and we didn't use any libraries for image processing.
I’m so glad that I managed to use the techniques I learned from competitive programming in my project. I'm also delighted that I was able to prove wrong those who say that competitive programming isn’t applicable in practical life, since I wouldn’t have been able to do all of this without my experience in ACM and competitive programming.
Badminton playing robot: Flying object detection, tracking and interception in real time project video on youtube
I hope you check and enjoy this demo me and my graduation project team made on the basic ideas in our robot. Please feel free to write comments. I will be more than happy to answer any of your questions as well.
This project was ceated by Me Ahmad1, Majd Wardeh MajdWardeh and Omar Aljubbah Omarjh.
UPD: My new robot for WRO competition: WRO