On the development of the agile eye

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 29-37

  Gosselin, Clément M ^{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}   St Pierre, Eric ^a   Gagné, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INRIA   (France)

^e Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers   (Canada)

^f Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung   (Germany)

^g RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h Inst Robotics and Intelligent Syst   (United States)

ⁱ IEEE

Author keywords

Active vision; Camera orienting devices; Dynamic control; Kinematic optimization; Parallel mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DEPTH PERCEPTION; MANIPULATORS; OPTIMIZATION; STEREO VISION;

AGILE EYE; CAMERA ORIENTING DEVICES;

CAMERA LENSES;

EID: 0030403553     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/100.556480     Document Type: Article

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