Research on hitting tasks performed by the tennis robot

The purpose of this research is a construction of a tennis robot which can play with people as an application of a dynamic motion control method and an intellectual strategy algorithm. We have developed dynamic motion control methods for mobile manipulators traveling on irregular terrain. In order to realize the tennis robot, we focus on a visual servo system based on the previous proposed control methods for tracking a flying ball. In this paper, our constructed tennis robot is shown and basic experiment results are shown. In the results, it is shown that the tennis robot can follow a flying ball and hit it.