Robot catching and Juggling a Ping Pong Ball - Demo

Robot catching and Juggling a Ping Pong Ball - Demo This is a video I made as a supplemental to a paper that was accepted to the ICARA 2011 [1]. It the same system that was filmed by GetRobo and uploaded here [2]. This one is more complete and better shows the possibilities of the system. The paper will be available on IEEE Explore.

[1] http://icara.massey.ac.nz/
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O4FrRujlII

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MIT Ping Pong Robot - rally with a human

MIT Ping Pong Robot - rally with a human Improved ball trajectory prediction and fixed some bugs. But the robot still has no idea about how its swings will affect the ball. (It just makes the same type of swing over and over again in different locations.) The next step is to have the robot learn a model for the ball-paddle collision.

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