Vision Based Ball Collecting Robot (P-0114) (MFN 3139)

Abstract

With the advancement in electrical and mechanical engineering, a new form of machines came into scene; called Robots. A Robot is a combination of electronics, mechanical design and software. If we see the modern world around us, we will find many machines/robots which are intelligent and make our life very easy. So are the vision based machines. In modern manufacturing plants we can see them working and checking the proper filling of bottles. If the bottle is not properly filled then that bottle is picked out automatically. Also the vision based robots are used to hover on the wings of Boeing aircraft during its manufacturing process in order to find cracks in it if there are any. The Robo Cup is also a world famous tournament in which robot teams from all over the world take part and the football is played solely by robots using vision. Hence there is very wide application of vision based robots in all the fields of life. Therefore I would like to work in this area of engineering for my final year project. The aim of this project is to develop an automated robot that is capable of recognizing red balls using vision and be able to collect them in a totally automated way. The approach used in for this project was first brain storm different system level solutions keeping in view of the requirements of the project. The problem is divided into two major categories, one is the development of the control system of the robot which include the embedded system, and design of robot in order to achieve required functionality. Second part is related to the acquisition of the video from the robot camera and performing the image processing for the required objects or according to requirements. In our case we need to recognize the red balls. After each image processing, control signals are generated accordingly that tells the embedded system of the robot what movement(s) should the robot perform next. The result of the employed technique is that I have successfully designed