Alexander Sigrist

Physics Models for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Professional-Level Robot Table Tennis

Christian Conti, Bilan Yang, Alexander Sigrist, Lorenzo Miele, Yamen Saraiji, Peter Dürr, et al.

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. Training a reinforcement learning policy capable of these skills is prohibitively expensive and dangerou…Read more