Vision-based closed-loop control of mobile microrobots for micro handling tasks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4568, Issue , 2001, Pages 187-198

  Buerkle, Axel ^a   Schmoeckel, Ferdinand ^a   Kiefer, Matthias ^a   Amavasai, Bala P ^b   Caparrelli, Fabio ^b   Selvan, Arul N ^b   Travis, Jon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depth estimation; Micromanipulation; Microrobots; Object recognition; Tracking; Vision sensors

Indexed keywords

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRON BEAMS; MICROMANIPULATORS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTIC ASSEMBLY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MOBILE MICROROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0035766392     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.444125     Document Type: Article

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