Design of ball collecting robot

Abstract

A concept of four-wheeled mobile service robot capable of collecting balls from the Tennis court is proposed in this article. The robot is capable of manoeuvring on its own in an autonomous way and also it can be operated wirelessly. The robot is built using the Arduino Uno R3 microcontroller board along with sensors like LiDAR, ultrasound sensor, optical encoders, infrared sensor, camera for vision system. Sensor fusion can be implemented for localization of the robot while detection of the tennis ball can be attained by learning based object detection algorithm using OpenCV. A* algorithm is proposed for the navigation of the robot towards the object. Wireless operation of the robot can be achieved with the Bluetooth technology using the Android application via a smartphone. The article is an overview and information.