Although it’s not new to be able to hit a golf ball down the fairway, building one that can do the short game well is more difficult. The German researchers at Paderborn University created Golfi, a machine that uses neural networks to calculate how to putt the ball and how hard to hit it to make it go in the hole.
The robot snaps a picture of the green with an a It simulates thousands on shots taken in random positions. It considers factors such as the turf’s rolling resistance, ball’s weight, and starting velocity. Paderborn doctoral student Annika Junker told Golfi Training on Simulated Shots take five minutes, as opposed to 30-40 hours if the team had to feed data from real shots into the system.
After Golfi has determined the shot, it rolls over the ball and uses a belt driven gear shaft with a putter to putt. However, the robot does not always get the ball into the hole. Junker claimed that the robot was able to hit the shot between 60-70 percent of times. It’s still a higher accuracy rate than many amateur golfers. And you won’t see Golfi fly off of the handle. It will be refunded if it is not received.
Golfi would sometimes drive over the ball, and move it out of its place. Although the robot was tested in the laboratory, real-world conditions such as greens with divots and steep slopes may present problems for a system that relies upon a bird’s eye view.
However, the researchers weren’t trying to build a robot that could be used in competition with other robots. pros. They are hopeful that the techniques they developed in Golfi can be applied to other robotics applications. “You can also transfer that to other problems, where you have some knowledge about the system and could model parts of it to obtain some data, but you can’t model everything,” Niklas Fittkau, another Paderborn University doctoral student and co-lead author of The story was told IEEE Research.
In 2016, another robot was introduced called LDRIC. This was my fifth attempt. I’m not sure who paid for the round of drinks in the clubhouse afterwards.
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