A survey of electromagnetic position tracker calibration techniques

Virtual Reality

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 169-182

  Kindratenko, Volodymyr V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic position tracking; Tracker calibration; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242630709     PISSN: 13594338     EISSN: 14349957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01409422     Document Type: Article

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