Introduction and Project Summary

Have you ever tried for a cup pong shot, only for the ball to bounce off the rim and skitter into the darkest, most inaccessible recesses of your living room? No longer! Splash is a computer vision-assisted robot that will aid individuals practicing their cup pong shots. Splash will track thrown ping pong balls and move the target cup to the ball’s projected landing location. We hope that our robot will be able to correct for inaccurate shots within a ~10cm radius of the cup as well as doing so within a typical ball flight time of ~1.0 seconds. Our mechanism will be comprised of a cup-moving robot (omnidirectional wheels OR cartesian gantry), a Kria board that runs the CV algorithms, and a depth camera for determining the ball’s position in the real world.