Success case
Upgrade Your Tennis Experience with Cutting-Edge AI-Enabled Ball Retrieving Robots
Hardware: NVIDIA Jetson Nano Use Case Provider: Vive Robotics Application: Tennis ball retriever robot Industry:
- Industry
- Retail & Consumer Services
- Application
- Automated tennis ball collection
- Results
- Reduced to 10–20% of the original Ball collection time
Project background and needs
Vive Robotics developed an automated ball-retrieving robot for professional training facilities and tennis academies, using Jetson Nano to process vision data and combining court path planning with a pickup mechanism for ball collection during training.
Training interruption
- Manual collection takes time and effort.
- Frequent ball collection breaks training rhythm and adds physical strain.
Needs a ball-collection method with less manual involvement.
Outdoor pickup
- Complex outdoor courts make precise navigation harder.
- The robot needs to detect and pick up scattered tennis balls.
Needs navigation, vision recognition, and pickup to work together.
Solution and architecture
Vision and navigation
Jetson Nano runs real-time tennis-ball detection and tracking, combined with path planning and obstacle avoidance to build the court route.
Automated collection
The pickup mechanism collects tennis balls, adapting its strategy to different zones and court conditions.
Solution components
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