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

arXiv:2606.28805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 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 dangerous in the real world, making high-fidelity simulation essential. Transferability of such policies, however, critically depends on how faithfully the simulation captures real...