Application of minimum error entropy unscented Kalman filter in table tennis trajectory prediction

PLoS One. 2022 Sep 30;17(9):e0269257. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269257. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

Table tennis is important and challenging project for robotics research, and table tennis robotics receives a lot of attention from academics. Trajectory tracking and prediction of table tennis is an important technology for table tennis robots, and its estimation accuracy is also disturbed by non-Gaussian noise. In this paper, a novel Kalman filter, called minimum error entropy unscented Kalman filter (MEEUKF), is employed to estimate the motion trajectory of physical model of a table tennis. The simulation results show that the MEEUKF algorithm shows outstanding performance in tracking and predicting the trajectory of table tennis compared to some existing algorithms.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Simulation
  • Entropy
  • Robotics*
  • Tennis*

Grants and funding

The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.