Ball Tracking Robot Using Raspberry Pi

The major drawback in today’s surveillance rests on the involvement of the human operators which can easily be distracted,so we need a system which can autonomously monitor regions continuously ,making decisions while identify unwanted or obnoxious things and respond accordingly.Object tracking using computer vision is crucial in achieving automated surveillance.

Raspberry pi is the single board computer or mini-computer.It is a small scale computer because size is slightly bigger than the credit card.This device is enough to run the games,word processing like office,photo editor and more process can be worked with similar magnitude.It is an education tools to be used for those who learn more about programming.Pi based on system of the chip with arm processor.Here boot media we can used as SD card which cannot be included in the device,accesses the continuous amount of data as possible.

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This project in order to build a ball tracking robot. Here the robot uses camera to take the frames and do images processing to track down the ball.The features of the ball as color, shape, size can be used.

Raspberry pi as microcontroller for the ball tracking robot as it gives great flexibility to use Raspberry Pi camera module and allows to code in Python which is very user friendly and opencv library,for image analysis.

Hardware Required:

1. Raspberry Pi
2. Camera and AV Receiver
3. Robot Chasis Model
4. DC Motor and Wheel
5. L293D Motor Driver

Steps to install OS:

1. Downloading the Raspbian OS
2. Download the SD Format
3. Insert the SD Card on the Laptop Slot
4. Open the SD Format click the format option
5. After format check the SD card is empty
6. Download the Win32 Disk Manager by this OS can be installed on the SD Card
7. Writing the Raspbian OS in the Micro SD Card
8. After installing the OS check the SD Card properties and space
9. Open Notepad save as empty and select the all files
10. Open Notepad save as empty and select the all files
11. Insert the SD Card on the Raspberry Slot and power it on

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Project Description:

1. Raspberry Pi: The Raspberry Pi is slower than a modern laptop or desktop but is still a complex Linux computer and provide all the expected abilities that implies,at a low-power consumption level.The OS raspbian ,the OS is installed on the SD Card only.The Raspberry Pi is open hardware,with the exception of the primary chip on the Raspberry Pi,which runs many of the main components of the board -CPU,graphics,memory,the USB controller,etc.Many of the projects made with a Raspberry Pi are open and well-documented as well and are things you can build and modify yourself.
2. DC Motor: This is an electric machines which converts electrical energy to mechanical energy,and the wheels are atteached to the shaft of the motors signal from the drive IC it moves
3. L293D Motor Driver: Controller will drive the motors using a motor driver IC
4. Wireless Camera: The wireless camera fitted on the robot works on 12V DC supply and this voltage is taken from the battery that is placed in the robot itself.

Software requirements:

1. Raspbian Os
2. Programming language: Python

• Raspberry pi
• camera
• DC motor
• motor driver

• Image Processing
• Image processing
• image processing

Ball Tracking Robot Using Raspberry Pi