Ball Following Robot with Swivel Camera!

Ball Following Robot with Swivel Camera!

A Robot that identifies and follows a ball.

Erik

The camera constantly takes pictures of its surrounding while specifically looking for a ball with a specific shade of green. Once it finds the ball it creates a digital recreation of it, so the robot can determine the radius of the ball, the radius will change depending how far the ball is. If this ball is determined to be outside the center of the camera’s view it will turn both with its wheels and servos to try and get the ball back to the center. The robot is also equipped with a light sensor which lights up and illuminates the area ahead of the robot in low light conditions. When the radius of the ball is small enough, meaning that the ball is further away, the robot will go forward to get closer once again. 

It’s a very clingy robot!