%0 Journal Article
%T Studies and simulations on the flight trajectories of spinning table tennis ball via high
%A Feng Ru
%A Ping Wang
%A Qian Zhang
%A Yinli Jin
%J Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology
%@ 1754-338X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1754337118815021
%X When a table tennis ball is hit by a racket, the ball spins and undergoes a complex trajectory in the air. In this article, a model of a spinning ball is proposed for simulating and predicting the ball flight trajectory including the topspin, backspin, rightward spin, leftward spin, and combined spin. The actual trajectory and rotational motion of a flying ball are captured by three high-speed cameras and then reconstructed using a modified vision tracking algorithm. For the purpose of model validation, the simulated trajectory is compared to the reconstructed trajectory, resulting in a deviation of only 2.42%. Such high modeling accuracy makes this proposed method an ideal tool for developing the virtual vision systems emulating the games that can be used to train table tennis players efficiently
%K Three-dimensional reconstruction
%K ball spinning
%K flight trajectory
%K high-speed camera
%K table tennis ball
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1754337118815021