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Robotic soccer-ball kicking leg (ROBOLEG) This project is no longer active. Head: Hagen Schempf Contact: Hagen Schempf (hagen@rec.ri.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)) Mailing address: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Associated center: FRC For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

Members of the FRC have been involved in the design and building of an experimental soccer- ball kicking robot for a large sports-shoe company in order to perform unbiased and repeatable experiments to improve upon shoe and soccer-ball designs. The leg was designed to approximate as close as possible the human kinematics and dynamics during the action of kicking a soccer ball. The purpose was to provide a consistent test-bed to remove the statistical variance associated with human testing and thus provide objective comparison criteria to judge and drive the design of new soccer-shoe prototypes. In addition, the developed system has the advantage of providing a highly visible, high-tech demonstration and show-piece for the sports-shoe company during trade-shows, press conferences and tournaments.

Past members

	Name	Title	Email Address
	Hagen Schempf	Principal Systems Scientist	hagen@rec.ri.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)

Publications

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• ROBOLEG: A Robotic Soccer-Ball Kicking Leg
  H. Schempf, C. Kraeuter, and M. Blackwell
  Proceedings of ICRA '95, Vol. 2, May, 1995, pp. 1314 - 1318. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [258 KB], ps.gz [1840 KB] copyrighted