Reinforcement learning for a robitic soccer goalkeeper

[wernwei87]

nice one ! 

[m4dh4ck3rG]

Cool

[StormWolf01]

Wouldn't it be interesting to have a system, or machine, automaticaly throwing balls, like every 5 seconds or so, in a more or less random(but forward) direction? You could let the machine and the robot do all the work, without human intervention.

But maybe the problem would be that the robot would stop the ball in such a way that the ball would stay on the field, making it difficult to throw another one.

I don't know.

[SqueakyReaper]

That's pretty interesting. How many trials did it take you for it to learn how to do something like that?

[FireFly686]

Cool, you should make a very weak magnet on the end of the robot, so when it has the ball it holds it. (The magnet is so weak so when it goes pass the robot it doesent suck it to it self with the magnet.)