4 papers
Physics Models for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Professional-Level Robot Table Tennis
Christian Conti, Bilan Yang, Alexander Sigrist +4
At competitive speeds and spins, a table tennis ball follows complex, counterintuitive trajectories that a robot must track and precisely counter within fractions of a second. Trai…
Event-based Gaze Control System for Accurate Real-time Spin Estimation in Professional Ball Games
Yunpu Hu, Fabian Schilling, Valentina Cavinato +6
Spin plays a crucial role in many ball sports due to its effect on the trajectory of the ball. Vision-based estimation of the ball's spin during a game with conventional cameras is…
1000 Rallies: An Event-Camera Dataset and Real-Time Learned Ball-State Estimation for Robotic Table Tennis
Raphaela Kreiser, Asude Aydin, Yin Bi +3
Robotic table tennis has emerged as a compelling benchmark for real-time robotic perception due to its fast ball dynamics and stringent timing requirements. Accurate, high-frequenc…
Bridging the sim2real gap in the table tennis robot with a transformer-based ball states predictor
Yin Bi, Christian Conti, Bilan Yang +3
Robotic table tennis is a representative benchmark for high-speed, closed-loop robotic control in dynamic environments, where accurate and fast prediction of ball states is critica…