arxivcs.ROeess.SY2026-07-08
Ace! Motion Planning of Professional-Level Table Tennis Serves with a Robot Arm
Guillem Torrente, Guilherme Jorge Maeda, Divij Grover, Megumu Tsukamoto, Hamdi Sahloul, Peter Dürr
Table tennis, a dynamic, compact, and popular sport, has received significant attention as a robotics benchmark over the last decades. Most of the research has focused on the rally aspect - returning an incoming ball - requiring high-speed vision, agile motion planning, and tight…