Authors: Serena Liu, Lindy Zhai
Youtube link to the final pong contest matches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ylTNh2DiaU&t=3s
Our bot have won the first place in 2021 ESC180 pong contest. Essentially, we have created a bot that can predict the trajectory of the pong ball in the game and make reasonable reactions:
- the racket predicts the ball's falling point and can hit the ball with 100% accuracy (if time and the ball speed allows)
- after every hit it attempts to return to the middle (to avoid the cases where two corner balls are served in a row)
- the racket will return the ball to the corner which is the farest from the opponent's racket.
That's it :)