We report on our recently achieved spatial two-juggle: the ability to bat two freely falling balls into stable periodic vertical trajectories with a single three degree of freedom robot arm using a real-time stereo camera system for sensory input. After a brief review of the previously reported one-juggle, we describe our initial approach to the two-juggle planning and control problem. We have developed a number of important refinements to our initial strategy in the course of getting the system to work, and these are reported in some detail. The paper concludes with a discussion of some data from typical two-juggle runs in the laboratory.
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