Hey!
Would it be possible to track a ball in midair and determine its course.
Thanks!
WB
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Oh, sorry.
I thought they could be considered two different subjects.
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Hey guys!
Does anybody have any ideas on this subject.
Intercepting balls in midair by launching another ball.
Thanks for you ideas!
WB
Sounds like a good idea to me!
HAHA! Indeed it is!
Any ideas on how I could do this?
A popular place to start is to track the ball with a video camera, or a PIXY cam.
I do have a PIXY cam. How I<lol be able to track the ball, I was thinking I could do an If (ball is not centered){ turn the camera until the ball is centered in the camera}
What after…
I have merged the two topics of overlapping subject matter, as requested.
Carry on.
Take a look at golf simulators. They are often designed by experienced radar designers. You need a big budget for high speed cameras and electronics.
tl;dr: fun to think about, quite difficult to do
When you want to take a break from making progress on your project, read deep and wide about Star Wars, not the movie but the Ballistic Missile Defense System.
If you are using a camera, you might find using more than one would help, and with more than one you might not need them to move physically.
This sounds like an ambitious project. You'll need to acquire the target, track it long enough to determine its trajectory and then launch your intercept object, which will have its own ballistic trajectory such that there will be a time when the two objects are at the same place.
I suggest you do as much work on the theory and/or software as you can first, making even wildly optimistic assumptions about the speed and quality of the information that your sensors provide, whatever those sensors might be, and similar assumptions about the accuracy with which the interceptor can be launched mechanically and see if the mathematical and computational problems are within reason for solving with the computer you are using and of course your own abilities.
Start with magic sensors that could provide position and velocity information, and a launcher that has altitude, azimuth and speed controls that were perfectly accurate and you still might have more than a normal maths homework problem.
It will be easier the more you can constrain the problem. If you are after intercepting a ball that when first seen could by anywhere in 3D volume with arbitrary velocity, it will be harder than, for example, knocking a basketball off course when it is on its way to the basket in the context of a free throw.
a7
Thank you
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