Golf-swing robot emulating a human motion

Author

Suzuki, Soichiro ; Inooka, Hikaru

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Syst. Eng., Kitami Inst. of Technol., Hokkaido, Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

29 Sep-1 Oct 1997

Firstpage

28

Lastpage

33

Abstract

The performance of golf clubs and balls is generally evaluated using a golf-swing robot that conventionally have two or three joints with completely interrelated motion. This interrelation allows the user of this robot to specify only the initial posture and swing velocity of the robot and thus, the swing motion of this type of robot cannot be subtly adjusted to the specific characteristics of individual golf clubs. Consequently, golf-swing robots cannot accurately emulate professional golfers and this causes serious problems for the evaluation of the performance of golf clubs. In the paper, a golf-swing robot that can adjust its motion to both, a specified value of swing velocity and the specific characteristics of individual golf clubs is investigated analytically

Keywords

robot dynamics; golf-swing robot; human motion emulation; initial posture; interrelated motion; swing velocity; Equations; Fingers; Friction; Gravity; Humans; Robot kinematics; Shafts; Shoulder; Torque; Wrist;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Communication, 1997. RO-MAN '97. Proceedings., 6th IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Sendai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4076-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.1997.646948

Filename

646948