An auto-scoring billiards system

• Published in: 2009 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics Vol. 6; pp. 3305 - 3309
• Main Authors: Tang, J., Wang, P.K.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.07.2009
• Subjects: Auto-scoring; Billiard; Computer languages; Data analysis; Educational institutions; Internet; Radiofrequency identification; RFID; Sensor; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Sport; TCPIP; Unified modeling language; Web server
• ISBN: 9781424437023; 1424437024
• ISSN: 2160-133X
• DOI: 10.1109/ICMLC.2009.5212762

Since the opening climate of Taiwanese society, the billiards becomes more and more popular. Besides, the sport association and interested persons also encouraged not only the activity but also setup the club among many colleges that further push billiards fast developing. Meanwhile, because many males and females billiards won the expecting good prizes at international races, the billiards has achieved unheard-of climate. In tradition, billiards has the artificial scoring which not only lack of automatic method to record the each ball which been hit into pocket when player win the game but also without the backend analysis system. Therefore, our system combined the RFID, TCP/IP and IR with Internet sense capability to make use of UML object-based analysis technology. We implemented the client/server model using C++ programming language to design the 9.Ball@RFID system having the characteristics of instant record (tag sensor), analysis (database), broadcast (Webcam) which should be used to train athletic for recording the analysis of batting steps but also for the billiards race to setup the live scoring. After the system testing, the reliability has an acceptable level at 96.47% for identification the billiards' balls. It shall be a good model of billiards table manufacturers for future commercialization because that the prototype developing cost is low.