Self-calibration of camera-equipped robot manipulators

International Journal of Robotics Research

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 909-921

  Meng, Yan ^a   Zhuang, Hanqi ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera self calibration; Motion estimation; Pose determination; Robot autonomous calibration; Robot calibration; Robot self calibration; Structure from motion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742282928     PISSN: 02783649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/02783640122068182     Document Type: Article

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