Learning anticipation policies for robot table tennis

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 332-337

  Wang, Zhikun ^a,b   Lampert, Christoph H ^c   Mülling, Katharina ^a,b   Schölkopf, Bernhard ^a   Peters, Jan ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING; ROBOTICS; SPORTS;

TABLE-TENNIS; TRAJECTORY-BASED; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 84455203878     PISSN: 21530858     EISSN: 21530866     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6094892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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