Journal
ROBOTICS
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/robotics10040113
Keywords
human-robot interaction; ball catching; trajectory prediction; anticipation learning; neural network
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- Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) [UIDB/00127/2020]
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This study introduces a Robot Anticipation Learning System that anticipates the trajectory of a flying ball by observing the thrower's hand motion, improving the catch rate by up to 20% compared to traditional methods that rely solely on information acquired during the flight phase.
Catching flying objects is a challenging task in human-robot interaction. Traditional techniques predict the intersection position and time using the information obtained during the free-flying ball motion. A common pain point in these systems is the short ball flight time and uncertainties in the ball's trajectory estimation. In this paper, we present the Robot Anticipation Learning System (RALS) that accounts for the information obtained from observation of the thrower's hand motion before the ball is released. RALS takes extra time for the robot to start moving in the direction of the target before the opponent finishes throwing. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first robot control system for ball-catching with anticipation skills. Our results show that the information fused from both throwing and flying motions improves the ball-catching rate by up to 20% compared to the baseline approach, with the predictions relying only on the information acquired during the flight phase.
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