A volleyball playing robot

Author

Nakai, Hiroaki ; Taniguchi, Yukinobu ; Uenohara, Michihiro ; Yoshimi, Takashi ; Ogawa, Hideki ; Ozaki, Fumio ; Oaki, Junji ; Sato, Hirokazu ; Asari, Yukio ; Maeda, Katsuhiro ; Banba, Hirolyuki ; Okada, Toshi ; Tatsuno, Kyoichi ; Tanaka, Eiji ; Yamaguchi,

Author_Institution

Kansai Res. Labs., Toshiba Corp., Kobe, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1998

Firstpage

1083

Abstract

We developed a robot system which can play one-on-one volleyball games with a human player. It can not only hit a flying ball back to the player correctly but also have various autonomous functionalities to interact with humans necessary for playing games, i.e., it can pick up a ball of a requested color by recognizing voice instructions, can locate the players by recognizing their faces, and can shake hands. This robot performed the entire game sequence over 100 times at a company-sponsored exhibition, where the ball rally continued over 25 times with an arbitrary player. In this paper, we mainly describe the real-time visual feedback system of the robot which is essential for playing ball games

Keywords

face recognition; feedback; manipulators; real-time systems; robot vision; sport; face recognition; hand-shaking; player location; real-time visual feedback system; volleyball playing robot; Cameras; Face recognition; Feedback; Force control; Humans; Optimal control; Real time systems; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Leuven

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4300-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.1998.677234

Filename

677234