Sep 2025 - Dec 2025
PoolBot
Physics-Aware Mobile Manipulator for Multi-Shot Autonomous Billiards.
Overview
PoolBot is a physics-aware mobile manipulation system for autonomous billiards, developed as the final project for MIT 6.4210: Robotic Manipulation. The system is designed to plan and execute multi-shot pool sequences on a standard pool table by reasoning about ball dynamics, robot motion, and manipulation constraints. The project was completed by Avi Naurla, Suraj Reddy, and me, and emphasizes integrating perception, physics-based planning, and mobile manipulation into a single autonomous system.
📄 Read the full project paper (PDF)
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PoolBot autonomously planning and executing shots
Final project submission demo for MIT 6.4210