Can your robot play basketball?? [VIDEO]

[y00ycdz]

I finally got this to do all 4!! ... there's a competition held at my college, robots that play bastketball, go head to head on a small court. Check out this video of a robot I was working on with group members last year, but we never got it to get 4 balls. Then while taking my summer course this summer i'm working on it a few hours a week and I finally got it to get all 4 balls. ... It works solely on light, distance and bump sensors. It does however have a pattern it goes in but finding the ball, and hoop is dependent on the readings from the sensors...

Robotis is the future. I hope to graduate and work in robotics development someday.

Link to zipped avi

Link to some info about the competition if your interested.

Yay!

 

[lupohki]

cool :beer:

 

[Rufio]

dude that is pretty cool

 

[NotoriousJTC]

...And, with the 1st pick in this years draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers select... Dr. Claw!!!

 

[Justin218]

nice job. I've been building a robot for the trinity college firefighting competition. Which microcontroller is your robot using?

 

[DanTMWTMP]

duude..i wish my school did something like this!!..freakin....my bro's school..northwestern...is doing some similar contest as well, and my bro's gonna compete in it w/ his friends...damn....stupid ucsd!

 

[y00ycdz]

Justin218: This uses the commercial Palm base which has the SV203 microprocessor. We went to trinity just a few months ago and lost really bad, BOTH the robots that worked pretty damn good in our homemade arena, did bad in their arena. Both arenas are almost exactly the same and are made of the same material, so we're not sure what happened there. I think though, it may have been the lighting, light and distance sensors may have been off.

Glad some of you liked it, I was pretty stoked when I got it to do 4 balls 5 runs in a row. Though, there's a 60 second time limit to the competition on both solo and head-to-head rounds (at least I think its 60 sec) and this robot takes about 80 seconds to do 4 balls. I will have to eliminate some of the 'sleep' commands that make the robot pause, but then it may not move as smoothly as it does. I will be experimenting w/ removing those sleep's this tuesday or thursday.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

sweet

 

[iamme]

haha, that's awesome

 

[DarkManXY2G]

Originally posted by: Justin218
nice job. I've been building a robot for the trinity college firefighting competition. Which microcontroller is your robot using?

LOL...well maybe the Clippers.

 

[Alchemist99]

What program can i play that Avi with?

thanks

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: Alchemist99
What program can i play that Avi with?

thanks

WMP

 

[zippy]

Haha, that's awesome! Good work!

 

[PCMarine]

Originally posted by: zippy
Haha, that's awesome! Good work!

Yeah, that's fricken cool!

 

[PCMarine]

BTW - You had to program a routine which the robot follows...what programming language did you use?

 

[oLLie]

Fadeaway jumper plzkthx!

 

[y00ycdz]

Originally posted by: PCMarine
BTW - You had to program a routine which the robot follows...what programming language did you use?

It's written in C. Compiled on the palmpilot using PocketC. The palmpilot send's the microprocessor the commands.

 

[Miramonti]

nice job!

 

[Adul]

that is bad ass

 

[her209]

Oh man, the things you can do with that robot.

 

[y00ycdz]

Originally posted by: her209
Oh man, the things you can do with that robot.

like? ...

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: y00ycdz

Originally posted by: her209
Oh man, the things you can do with that robot.

like? ...

Hey man, use your imagination.

 

[DanFungus]

wow, that is farking cool!

 

[shady123]

awesome

 

[Rahminator]

That's wicked cool. Is robotics under electrical or mechanical engineering or something else entirely?