National Robotics Competition (NRC) 2012 - Robot Connecting People SJKTC...

Malaysia National Robotics Competition (NRC) 2012 - Robot Connecting People

We used ideas we got from many online sources such as Wikipedia, Youtube, Google, etc to get ideas for the design of the Basketball robot. We also substituted the ideas from the pictures when building our robot.
Hoops, a robotic basketball-shooting arm that nails free-throws with 98% accuracy, has been fascinating Science Center visitors for years.

Basketball is a team sport, the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules. Usually, two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each width end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports
Shooting is the act of attempting to score points by throwing the ball through the basket, methods varying with players and situations.
Our project is the build the basketball player robot that can shoot the ball in very high accuracy.

Vision
Robot Connecting People
Mission
Robots that play human games (or play against human)!


Objective
Robots that connecting with the human through the Basketball Game.


Synopsis of the project
Background

We used ideas we got from many online sources such as Wikipedia, Youtube, Google, etc to get ideas for the design of the Basketball robot. We also substituted the ideas from the pictures when building our robot.


Designing and Building Process
(a) Concept and Implementation

The concept of our robot is that the robot will play the basketball game. Basketball is the human game. Our idea is to design the robot that can play human game and hopefully one day, human can play basketball with the robot. We are using three motor to design the basketball robot. Two motors control the movement of the robot and one motor to become the flipper to throw the ball.

(b) Brainstorming and solution to the problem

We used the idea from Hoops, a robotic basketball-shooting arm that nails free-throws with 98% accuracy, has been fascinating Science Center visitors for years.

We have decided we use the distance with the robot will throw the ball into the basket with very high accuracy.

(c) Engineering and stability of the structures

To make the robot throw the ball in high accuracy, we need a very stable base. Therefore, we decided to use the caterpillar belt for the movement of the robot.