Roboball

By Micah Mok, Aniket Mittal, Indraja Babu, Micah Hsu
for EECS 106A.

Our goal was to combine control, perception and planning
to control a robot arm to repeatedly bounce
a balloon or ball.

Project video

Explore the project

Roboball goal overview

Goal

End-effector design preview

Design

RealSense camera

Perception

Predicted ball trajectory with HSV detections

Planning

UR7e mid-bounce with the orange ball in the air

Challenges

Concept render of a future juggling robot

Future improvements

Team

Micah Mok

Micah Mok

Micah is a senior in Cognitive Science and Computer Science. He's excited to graduate and explore the world. He worked on the trajectory prediction, and portions of the planning and control pipeline.

Indraja Babu

Indraja Babu

Indy is a junior EECS student. In her spare time, she likes building matcha making robots. Worked on the end-effector design, perception, portions of the control / planning pipeline, and helping test.

Aniket Mittal

Aniket Mittal

Aniket is a 2nd Year EECS + Business student. He's passionate about learning how to golf, watching F1 and cars. Worked on perception, portions of the control / planning pipeline, and helping test.

Micah Hsu

Micah Hsu

Micah is a senior Mechanical Engineering student. Worked on testing and debugging the system.

Roboball for EECS 106A