BALL-E in Purdue Mechatronics Robot Competition

This video shows the three competition trials for our four-person team's robot named "BALL-E."

The rules were that the robot must autonomously collect and deposit all three tennis balls in under one minute. Faster times would get a better score. The team's score was decided by the best out of three trials.

BALL-E uses five IR sensors for ball detection and one for detecting the wall. Line following is achieved using an array of four light sensors at the rear of the robot. It uses the Arduino Duemilanovae for processing.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• robot
• mechatronics
• competition
• tennis
• ball
• mechanical
• engineering
• ME 588
• sensors
• infrared
• Arduino
• Duemilanovae