Ace! Motion Planning of Professional-Level Table Tennis Serves with a Robot Arm

arXiv:2607.06989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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 closed-loop control. However, the other component of table tennis gameplay - the serve - is comparatively a quite unexplored research problem, that in fact requires pushin...