A low-cost vision based air hockey system

Abstract

Air Hockey is a sport practiced in a table with low friction. Two players competing against each other holding paddles that are used to hit a puck with the objective of getting scores every time the puck enters the opponent's goal. This paper covers the development of low-cost vision based air hockey system capable of playing a match of Air Hockey against a human player. The system is composed by a robot, a camera and an Arduino MEGA board. The efficiency of the robot is presented in the final experiment, which justifies the possibility of using the system as a training environment for professional players. © 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.