Evaluating skill ability for some basic skills in tennis

Towards Robot Skill Learning: From Simple Skills to Table Tennis

Learning robots that can acquire new motor skills and refine existing ones have been a long-standing vision of both robotics, and machine learning. However, off-the-shelf machine learning appears not to be adequate for robot skill learning, as it neither scales to anthropomorphic robotics nor do fulfills the crucial real-time requirements. As an alternative, we propose to divide the generic ski...

Low compression tennis balls and skill development.

Coaching aims to improve player performance and coaches have a number of coaching methods and strategies they use to enhance this process. If new methods and ideas can be determined to improve player performance they will change coaching practices and processes. This study investigated the effects of using low compression balls (LCBs) during coaching sessions with beginning tennis players. In o...

Skills, Ability

Reading Skill Test to Diagnose Basic Language Skills in Comparison to Machines

A reading skill test to diagnose basic language skills is introduced. The test is designed to measure six component skills relevant to reading in comparison with those of state-ofthe-art natural language processing technologies. The results of the first large-scale experiments using the test are reported. Surprisingly, almost half of Japanese junior high school students do no better than machin...

Carbohydrate-electrolyte Drink Ingestion and Skill Performance in Tennis

............................................................................................. 5 Chapter 1: Introduction............................................................................ 7 Chapter 2: Review of Literature................................................................ 10 2.1 The physiological demands of tennis..............................................11 2.2 Metaboli...