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Project Preference
1. Object Tracking for Robot Vision

2. Automatic Shaker Table Design Report

3. MakerBot PLA Material Characterization Implement Report''

Problem Statement
''IWe will be working on finding what the project should be about in the price and what people want to be special about it '

Project Plan
We are deciding what should the project present and for how long and also we will present the people needs for this project.

Week 1 Narrative
''I worked on a survey that explains what we would like this project to present and what would the people think about it. Also I mentioned the cost and how much people would like to spend on this project. Until now I trying to get different ages to answer this survey and compare the answers. I also did a small search about so many different blob detection and they are pointed to the same point at the end.People liked it but never knew how to use. Some people didn't even know the blob at all so I had to explain before I let them take the survey to get a good answer.I want to make another survey about what do people like in sports.so we can try to decide an idea for the project ''

Week 2 Narrative
This Week we have changed the survey from our first one and tried to get as many people as possible to take that survey and here is what the survey looked like

1.	What do you think Vision Tracking is? •	Vision Tracking is a simple system that uses software to run a camera to follow a moving and track an object. 2. What is the most interesting from the following list? 1. Collision Avoidance (A Safety Break System for Auto Mobiles) 2. Automatic deer hunting (Automatic Shooter) 3. Robotic goal keeper in soccer (Automatic goal keeper) 4. Tennis table ball tracking pad (Automatic Defensive player) 5. Video surveillance (Monitoring Cameras) 6. Driverless Car (Automatic Driveless Car) 7. Robotic Football Catcher (Automatic Catcher) 8. Automatic Door Entry with Face recognition (A System with Face recognition) 9. Robotic Hockey Table (Automatic Defensive Player) 10. Robotic Alarm Dog (A Robotic Guard Dog) 3. How much would you pay for it? 4. What changes or extra equipment would you do to it ?

I got up to 32 people to take the survey and here are the results 10 voted for the Robotic Football Catcher

7 voted for the Robotic Hockey Table

5 voted for Automatic Door Entry with Face recognition

4 Driverless Car

3 collision avoidance

3 robotic alarm dog

Here are the average prices that people recommended to buy them for

$256.76 for Robotic Football Catcher

$165.96 for Robotic Hockey Table

$201.50 for Automatic door entry with face recognition

$432.00 for Driverless car

$296.75 for Collision avoidance

$124.56 for Robotic Alarm dog

Here are some requirements that people would like to see in the product that they would buy for each one

Robotic Football Catcher To catch for far distance To return the Football back to you To tell you what you should do to have a better angler throws To keep count of how many you can throw at the same spot To keep track your speed of throwing the ball

Robotic Hockey Table To have different levels where it could be easier to use with kids at different ages To be able to help you improve to different skills at the game To be moved and transformed to smaller size so you can take it any where you like

The rest for the other projects were good ideas, but since we will choice one of the top two so that is why the other ideas are not included

Week 3 Narrative
''This week I have worked on a few different things that doesn't really go in order in the CDIO report, but it made sense if I do it because we are behind because of our first week. I have doing a lot of research trying to find any projects similar to ours, but I couldn't find any similar projects at all. All that I found was the football thrower, but I couldn't find anything that would catch the football. I am guessing that this was a very hard project to work through, people thought that football would always would need at least two people to pass a football, or people thought of it as stupid idea and it will never work. Here are the results that I got at the end of this week for our project

System goals and requirements

We would like to add these features to the Football Catcher

•	Get it to catch in at least a distance of 10- 20 yards or more as long as it does not effects the camera’s blob with any other affects from the around.

•	Get it to keep track of how many footballs it has gotten

•	To have a limited square where the football would be caught

•	We need it to catch different sizes of footballs

•	Cannot cost more than $200 since the people you would not buy it for more than $300

System goals and requirements

•	To have the ability to catch different sizes of footballs from sizes of 42" to 46".

•	To be to use for different ages from 10 to 55 years old.

•	To be able to close into a size of 3 feet by 4 feet to be moved around.

•	To work with a minimum of 15 feet high and 20 width.

•	To work with at least of 7 yards away from the person throwing the ball.

•	To be able to hold at least two football of sizes between 44" to 46".

•	To be heavy about 90-120 lbs fro it to stay against strong wind of a rounded of 20 mph.

Ethical, social, environmental, legal and regulatory influences

After doing a lot of research we couldn't find any issues against the following to our project:

•	Ethical

•	Social

•      Environmental

•      Legal

•      Regulatory Influences

System concepts
↓↓↓↓Here are some pictures of different concepts↓↓↓↓ We had Various concepts for the Automatic Football Catcher; it is true some concepts seem more realistic than others but the Pugh Concept decision Matrix helped us narrow down the viable ideas to three major. Here are the Concepts we had:

-Telescopic Net: A telescopic arm mounted with two cameras and having a net at its end can expand or contract to catch the football.

-Drone football catcher : A flying Drone equipped with cameras and grabbing arms can track and catch the football.

-3D moving football catcher

-2D moving football catcher

-Glowing football equipped with LED's

-Pivoting and collapsing net: A giant net equipped with 3 cameras that pivots around its axis and collapses on the football.

The Links for different concepts can be found below

-Football equipped with infrared emitters. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Pivoting_and_Collapsing_Net.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Telescopic_Net.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Drone_football_catcher.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Motion_in_3D.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/2D_motion.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Glowing_ball.jpg

Trade-offs among concepts
Here some of the ideas that we are ending with

-Drone football catcher : A flying Drone equipped with cameras and grabbing arms can track and catch the football.

-3D moving football catcher

-2D moving football catcher

-Glowing football equipped with LED's

High level architectural form and structure
The system will be a combination of mechanical (gears, actuators..), electrical (sensors, cameras, motors) ,and software and hardware equipment (raspberry or arduino, code)



The decomposition of form into subsystems, assignment of functions to subsystems, and definition of interfaces
Being only is the conceive phase, we are certain that the main subsystem of The automatic football catcher will be centered around its processor(raspberry or arduino). This processor is going to receive signal ( information) from the Cameras, next the processor will send signal to the motors ( gears ,actuators...) and the sensors will send back infos to the processor for adjustment.