Abstract
This paper talks about the development and construction of a system of autonomous robot that is designed to put a set of billiard balls into corner pockets. The reason why I am doing this experiment is because hopefully I can succeed my project so I can use it at a school competition called Science Olympiad. In the 2003 competition held at Fresno State(regionals) and Visalia(state) I used the Lego Mindstorm. I did not do so well. At Fresno State my partner(Garrett Willingham) and I placed fifth and at state, we did not place in the top eight. If I am able to build this robot, I can maybe get second. I will just build it from the web page I will be making. The way I did my project was a placed my robot on a four foot by four foot board covered by carpet. The robot went up; as soon as the robot hit the first ball in the front, it activated the arm which trapped two balls and took it to a pocket which was located at each corner of the board. The robot will repeat these steps until there are no balls left.
The results were kind of what I expected. The robot was able to put a majority of the balls into the pockets. A few balls missed the can and a couple fell off the table. I was not to happy with the results. It was the same results as my Science Olympiad results. Now I can continue working on my robot until all the balls are gone.