Shuttlecock Launcher

Noramin, Ab. Jalil (2012) Shuttlecock Launcher. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

One of the problems related with practising badminton is that it requires at least two players. It is impossible for an individual to practice badminton without the assistance of another player. Thus, a shuttlecock launcher has been developed to launch the shuttlecocks that have been loaded into the machine. Studies had been carried out on other similar types of launching machine to understand the mechanism involved feeding, launching and control system. Accuracy of the ball motion generated by the mechanism from the first experiment by coordinate (x,y) m are (±0.1445, ±0.0225) m, (±0.1888, ±0.0965) m, (±0.1500, ±0.6845) m and (±0.2560, ±0.2162) m for drop, mid court, smash and lob shot. From the first experiment we can see that the distribution for the drop, midcourt and lob shot are still acceptable due to ideal distance is around 0.35m radius from the target accept for the midcourt which the distribution is too extreme. The second experiment which is to check the accuracy of the launcher to the ideal area are 57.5%,47.5%, 35% and 32.5% for drop, mid court, smash and lob shot. From the second experiment we can assume that the farther the distance, make less accuracy of the launcher. The result was compared with the existed trajectory equation.

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