ロボット卓球サーブのためのイベント時間ハイブリッド最適制御
Event-Time Hybrid Optimal Control for Robotic Table Tennis Serves
ロボット卓球のサーブ生成を、バウンドやネット通過などのイベント時刻を最適化変数に含む最適制御問題として定式化し、運動学的・動的制約を満たす実用的なサーブを高速に生成する手法を提案した。
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著者: Thomas Gossard, Till Köpff, Andreas Ziegler
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Robotic table tennis serves require high ball velocity and spin while respecting the robot's kinodynamic limits. Unlike rally strokes, a valid serve must also bounce on the server's side and clear the net, yielding a hybrid system with nonlinear flight and impact dynamics. We formulate spin-controlled serve generation as an event-time \ac{OCP} that optimizes the racket impact velocity and orientation together with the bounce, net-crossing, and landing times, enabling direct enforcement at phase boundaries of table-bounce and net-clearance constraints. The racket velocity and orientation are then converted into a complete kinodynamically feasible motion through a second \ac{OCP} enforcing joint-position, velocity, and torque limits. We evaluate the method numerically and on a KUKA Agilus robot. Compared with a fixed-step formulation with root localization, the proposed event-time formulation reduces the median solve time by a factor of 4.1 while maintaining comparable landing accuracy, spin accuracy, and serve validity. Real-robot experiments demonstrate controlled placement and topspin, backspin, and sidespin serves, with a mean landing error of $13.1 \pm 7.3$~cm and spin rates up to 30~rps. These results show that event-time optimal control efficiently generates physically valid, kinodynamically feasible serves while accounting for nonlinear aerodynamic and impact effects.