Learning to Hit: A statistical Dynamical System based approach

Harshit Khurana,Michael Bombile,Aude Billard,Harshit Khurana,Michael Bombile,Aude Billard

This paper proposes a manipulation scheme based on learning the motion of objects after being hit by a robotic end-effector. This allows for the object to be positioned at a desired location outside the physical workspace of the robot. An estimate of the object dynamics under friction and collisions is learnt and used to predict the desired hitting parameters (speed and direction), given the initi...