Active self-calibration of robotic eyes and hand-eye relationships with model identification

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 158-166

  Wei, Guo Qing ^a   Arbter, Klaus ^a   Hirzinger, Gerd ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active motion; Hand cameras; Hand eye calibration; Model identification; Motion planning; Self calibration; Unique solution

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRIPPERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION CONTROL; MOTION PLANNING; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VIDEO CAMERAS;

ACTIVE MOTION; HAND EYE CALIBRATION; ROBOTIC EYES;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0031997999     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.660864     Document Type: Article

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