Investigation of best robot kicking

Abstract

Robot football competitions have been popular currently accross the world. Aiming to challenge for the FIRA (Federation of International Robot-soccer Association) Robot World Cup, we are considering an interesting problem: how to reach the best kick that a small humanoid can give to a ball? To this end, for one humanoid robot developed in University of Plymouth, this paper describes the inverse kinematics used and software developed. Some perspectives of the theory and practice results are discussed in this paper.