High-speed batting using a multi-jointed manipulator

In this paper a robotic batting algorithm using a high-speed arm and high-speed stereo vision is proposed. With this strategy, the desired trajectory of the manipulator is generated so that both high-speed swing motion and tracking motion combine to meet the ball squarely with the bat. As a result the manipulator can follow the ball while swinging the bat at high speed even if it is difficult to predict the trajectory of a ball. Experimental results are shown in which a high-speed manipulator hits a ball thrown by a human.

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