Title :
Development and simulation of a tennis robot
Author :
Lin, J. ; Furusho, J. ; Sakaguchi, M. ; Zhang, G.G. ; Sato, F. ; Narou, T. ; Nagao, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput.-Controlled Mech. Syst., Osaka Univ., Japan
Abstract :
The development and the simulation of robots which have sporting ability close to human beings is very useful for testing and developing sports goods. The paper discusses the development and the simulation of a tennis robot. The developed tennis robot has two joints which are controlled by the servo system like human muscle, and its characteristics are similar to a human being. A simulation for the whole system including racket, ball and tennis robot has been set up. The simulation results show good similarity to the experimental results
Keywords :
motion control; robots; ball; racket; servo system; sporting ability; sports goods; tennis robot; Computational modeling; Elasticity; Grasping; Humans; Mechanical systems; Motion control; Muscles; Orbital robotics; Robots; Viscosity;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5731-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1999.812516
