Basketball robot: Ball-on-plate with pure haptic information

Kwang Kyu Lee, Georg Bätz, Dirk Wollherr

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Abstract

Building a basketball robot is a recently launched project at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering (LSR) for investigating fast manipulation with non-negligible dynamics and changing contact situation. This study presents one of the main preliminary results of the project which is balancing a basketball on a plate using a six degrees of freedom serial industrial robot based on pure haptic information. The Ball-On-Plate system has been one of the classical applications of control theory and many studies have been conducted on this issue. However, most of these studies employed vision systems to update the current state of the ball on the plate. In this paper, the concept of balancing a ball on a plate purely based on haptic information is discussed. The velocity of the basketball which rolls on a plate is estimated based on the force data measured by a force-torque (F/T) sensor mounted on the end-effector and the proposed control scheme brings the basketball back to a still standing on the plate. Experimental results are presented to validate the efficiency of the proposed control scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2008
Pages2410-2415
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2008 - Pasadena, CA, United States
Duration: 19 May 200823 May 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
ISSN (Print)1050-4729

Conference

Conference2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2008
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPasadena, CA
Period19/05/0823/05/08

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