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A Robotic Ball Catcher with Embedded Visual Servo Processor
(2010-01-01)
Hu, Jwu-Sheng
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Chien, Ming-Chih
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Chang, Yung-Jung
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Chang, Yen-Chung
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Su, Shyh-Haur
In this work we present a robotic ball catcher with embedded visual servo processor. The embedded visual servo processor with powerful parallel computing capability is used as the computation platform to track and triangulate a flying ball's position in 3D based on stereo vision. A recursive least squares algorithm for model-based path prediction of the flying ball is used to determine the catch time and position. Experimental results for real time catching of a flying ball are presented by a 6-DOF robot arm. The percentage of success rate of the robotic ball catcher was found to be approximately 60% for the ball thrown to it from five meters away.