Development of Autonomous Table Tennis Ball Retrieving Robot

Document Type : Original research papers

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1 UCSI University, Faculty of Engineering, North wing, Kuala lumpur, 56000 Cheras

2 TCE Madurai, India

3 UMR CNRS 6285 LabSTICC, ENIB, 29238 Brest, France

Abstract

Table tennis is indeed a sport which involves or four people hitting a lightweight ball back and forth across a surface using small wooden rackets. Table tennis players must retrieve played balls off the field's floor, even though numerous balls are used and played during training sessions. As a result, collecting is a time-consuming and exhausting procedure. Pick up hoppers and tubes are some of the equipment and systems used to make the collecting process easier. In this paper, we designed and built an autonomous Table Tennis Ball Retrieving Robot that can collect up to 5 balls at once. An acrylic frame supports the robot, which is guided by four separately controlled wheels. The table tennis balls are sucked into a lightweight basket on top of the robot by a rotating fan. The fan is driven by a brushed motor with a high RPM speed.

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