Tennis Ball Collector
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Date
2023
Authors
Asala Tibi
Hala Barqawi
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Abstract
Tennis, a widely popular game, is a racket sport that takes
place on a rectangular and flat surface court. During tennis
training sessions, manually collecting the balls can be
a laborious task , and the process of retrieving the balls
manually can be time-consuming and physically demanding.
This project aims to address the laborious task of manually
collecting tennis balls during training sessions by
developing an autonomous robotic tennis ball collector.
The objective is to design a robot capable of navigating
the tennis court, detecting tennis balls using image
processing techniques, and autonomously collecting them,
thereby allowing players to rest instead of manually retrieving
the balls. The robot features four independentlyactuated
wheels. A gate mechanism is employed to push
the tennis balls into a basket mounted on the robot. A
camera mounted on the robot captures images, which are
processed using OpenCV libraries on a Raspberry Pi to
detect tennis balls through an edge detection algorithm.
This project presents an effective solution for automating
the collection of tennis balls during training sessions,
providing convenience and relief to players from the manual
collection task.