On the kinematics of robot heads

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 437-442

  Sharkey, Paul M ^a   Murray, David W ^b   Heuring, Jason J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inverse kinematics; Jacobians; Kinematics; Robot heads

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; KINEMATICS; MANIPULATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROXIMITY SENSORS; ROBOTIC ARMS;

ROBOT HEADS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

EID: 0031165885     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.585904     Document Type: Article

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