Ball Control in High-speed Batting Motion

Summary

Speeding up of robot motion provides not only improvement of operating efficiency but also dexterous manipulation taking advantage of unstable state or non-contact state. We propose a hybrid trajectory generator in order to produce high-speed manipulation. This algorithm consists of both mechanical high-speed motion and sensor-based reactive motion. As an example of high-speed manipulation, a robotic ball control in batting task has been realized.

Movies

• Ball control
     [WMV, 2.2MB], [WMV, 3.4MB]
• Slow motion
     [WMV, 0.4MB], [WMV, 0.4MB]

References

1. Taku Senoo, Akio Namiki and Masatoshi Ishikawa. Ball Control in High-Speed Batting Motion using Hybrid Trajectory Generator. 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. (Orlando, USA, 2006. 5.17) / Proceedings, pp.1762-1767.
2. T. Senoo, A. Namiki and M. Ishikawa: Spray Hitting Using a High-speed Batting System, 6th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2005), pp. 695-696 (2005)