Haptically Assisted Golf Putting Through a Planar Four-Cable System

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Huang, Peter Y
Kunkel, Jacquelyn A
Brindza, Jordan
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Individuals learning a new sport often repeat a motion hundreds or thousands of times to try to perfect their form. The quintessential example of this process may be a beginning golfer struggling to learn to putt, where strokes must be precise and consistent in order to place the ball in the hole. This paper presents a four-cable haptic device designed to help golfers learn to improve their putting accuracy. This planar three-DOF system provides feedback that consists of two Cartesian forces and one angular moment. We present the system’s design and kinematics, along with a closed-loop controller that helps the user keep the putter head at the correct angle in the plane. We evaluated our design through a study in which five subjects used the system to repeatedly putt at a target both with and without assistance. While assistance did not change the mean of the putting distribution, it did significantly affect the variance for some subjects

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2011-06-01
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P. Y. Huang, J. A. Kunkel, J. Brindza, K. J. Kuchenbecker. Haptically Assisted Golf Putting Through a Planar Four-Cable System. In Proceedings, IEEE World Haptics Conference, 191-196, June 2011. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WHC.2011.5945484 © 2011 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
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