Title:A Ball-Catching Redundant Industrial RobotAuthor(s):Matthias Neubauer, Roland Riepl, Hubert GattringerAbstract:This contribution presents details of a novel demonstrator developed at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. For exhibition purposes, the demonstrator needs to be able to catch balls which are thrown into its workspace by the audience. In our approach the demonstrator’s manipulator is composed of a six-axes industrial robot, mounted onto a rapidly moving linear axis, resulting in a redundant robotic system. To track the thrown ball, a highly sophisticated, actuated vision system is developed. From a mechatronical (and also industrial) perspective, various interesting challenges arise in the process of modeling and control of the overall mechatronic system.Booktitle:The 13th Mechatronics Forum International ConferencePublisher:Trauner VerlagEditor(s):R. Scheidl, B. JakobyISBN:978-3-99033-045-6Page Reference:page 462-468, 7 page(s)Publishing:2012Volume:2