Traction Control for Curling Robot

A Stone Throwing Robot (SRT) which is an essential component of Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to autonomously play the curling sport was developed. The information of required control performance for driving (target velocity, heading angle) was delivered to the SRT from the AI system.

The high precision driving control is required for the SRT to accomplish the task from the AI server;

1) The SRT should attain maximum velocity of 3.50m/s within a limited distance of 10m

2) the heading angle should be strictly maintained during the driving

3) The SRT should not slip on the ice.

The SRT can throw the stone satisfying the requirements with a velocity resolution of 0.01m/s and with a heading angle resolution of 0.01 degree.

In the near future, a sweeping robot with precision movement will also be developed.

1.International conference: “Traction Control for Two-Wheel Driven Mobile

Robot Driving on Ice”, Jung Hyun Choi and Sehoon Oh, 2018 International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (2018). (Accepted)

2.International conference: “Development of Stone Throwing Robot and High Precision Driving Control for Curling”, Jung Hyun Choi, Chang Yong Song, KYUNGHWAN KIM, Sehoon Oh, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018). (submitted)

3.Patent: CURLING ROBOT AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A DRIVE OF THE CURLING ROBOT, 10-2017-0132819, Sehoon Oh and Jung Hyun Choi. (pending)

This work was supported by

Institute for Information and communications Technology Promotion(IITP) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIT)(No.2017-0-00521)