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The Team Team Leads: Ryan Collier – rmcollie@engmail.uwaterloo.ca Perry Haldenby – pajhalde@uwaterloo.ca Moe Adham – madham@engmail.uwaterloo.ca The Leads are a group of 3 engineering students. We...
Autonomous Tennis Ball Robot Our project team consists of  3 fourth year Mechatronics Engineering as well as 8 additional members of the UW Robotics...
Results From the Symposium The symposium was a great success. The Tennis Robot performed just as expected and seemed to be a crowd favourite. You...
Tennis Robot Featured on CTV CTV did a bit on the Tennis Robot at the symposium. Check it out here: Tennis Robot on TV
Completion Stage with Ball Following In the final stages of development, the robot successfully identifies tennis balls, navigates towards them, and picks them up!
Come Check us Out at The Symposium The UW Mehatronics Engineering Design symposium is taking place Monday March 22nd from 1pm to 5pm in the Student Life...
The Heart of the Vision System Our vision system relies on a custom service we wrote in Microsoft Robotics Studio. It uses a slightly altered color-segmentation...
PickUp Mechanism and Remote Vision System Testing Development Video III Pickup Mechanism and Remote Vision System Testing
3D CAD Model This video shows the animated 3D model of our Tennis Robot as it was designed in SolidWorks:
Pick up Mechanism The system to be used in picking the balls up off the court consists of a single rotating shaft mounted...
Skilled Driving In Action We’ve perfected the drive system and the camera placement and we can now drive the robot fairly accurately using the...
Vision System A major aspect of the control of the robot is the vision system. Major strategic decisions will be made based...
The Robot Moves! Today we got the the robot driving.  Here is the video: Explanation: The 2 12V DC motors are controlled by Parallax Motor...
Collection Strategy The collection Strategy can be summarized by the flowchart above.
The Problem Professional tennis matches can last upwards of 3 hours, often with little more than 10 minutes of rest in between sets. The...
Environment The environment for this system is narrowed to ensure ease of preliminary design. Through a partnership with the Northfield tennis...
  • The Team0March 19, 2010

    The Team

    Team Leads: Ryan Collier – rmcollie@engmail.uwaterloo.ca Perry Haldenby – pajhalde@uwaterloo.ca Moe Adham – madham@engmail.uwaterloo.ca The Leads are a group of 3 engineering students. We are currently completing our...
  • Autonomous Tennis Ball Robot0March 15, 2010

    Autonomous Tennis Ball Robot

    Our project team consists of  3 fourth year Mechatronics Engineering as well as 8 additional members of the UW Robotics team. Or goal is to design,...
  • Results From the Symposium0March 24, 2010

    Results From the Symposium

    The symposium was a great success. The Tennis Robot performed just as expected and seemed to be a crowd favourite. You can check out the footage...
  • Tennis Robot Featured on CTV0March 23, 2010

    Tennis Robot Featured on CTV

    CTV did a bit on the Tennis Robot at the symposium. Check it out here: Tennis Robot on TV
  • Completion Stage with Ball Following0March 22, 2010

    Completion Stage with Ball Following

    In the final stages of development, the robot successfully identifies tennis balls, navigates towards them, and picks them up!
  • Come Check us Out at The Symposium0March 19, 2010

    Come Check us Out at The Symposium

    The UW Mehatronics Engineering Design symposium is taking place Monday March 22nd from 1pm to 5pm in the Student Life Centre at the University of...
  • The Heart of the Vision System1March 19, 2010

    The Heart of the Vision System

    Our vision system relies on a custom service we wrote in Microsoft Robotics Studio. It uses a slightly altered color-segmentation algorithm to locate tennis-ball-like objects...
  • PickUp Mechanism and Remote Vision System Testing2March 18, 2010

    PickUp Mechanism and Remote Vision System Testing

    Development Video III Pickup Mechanism and Remote Vision System Testing
  • 3D CAD Model1March 15, 2010

    3D CAD Model

    This video shows the animated 3D model of our Tennis Robot as it was designed in SolidWorks:
  • Pick up Mechanism0March 15, 2010

    Pick up Mechanism

    The system to be used in picking the balls up off the court consists of a single rotating shaft mounted on the front of the robot...
  • Skilled Driving In Action0March 15, 2010

    Skilled Driving In Action

    We’ve perfected the drive system and the camera placement and we can now drive the robot fairly accurately using the WebCam, Skype and VNC Server. Here...
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