Autonomous golf ball picking robot design and development

• Author(s): Pereira, Nino ; Ribeiro, António Fernando ; Lopes, Gil ; Whitney, Daniel ; Lino, Jorge
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/25740
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Autonomous robot; Pick up; Golf balls; Design and development; Autonomous mobile field robotics; Golf ball picking robot; Differential drive kinematics; Path planning
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The golf ball picking task is a daily that requires human intensive labor. This document presents the hardware developing process of an autonomous golf ball picking robot which aims to efficiently perform this task. It has a maintenance capacity of a 25,000 m2 practice field. Compared to a similar device in the market this robot has twice the maximum speed and three times more container capacity.