Stair climbing for humanoid robots using stereo vision

2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1407-1413

  Gutmann, Jens Steffen ^a   Fukuchi, Masaki ^a   Fujita, Masahiro ^a  

^a SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; STEREO VISION;

AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; BIPED WALKING; HUMANOID ROBOTS; STAIR CLIMBING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 14044259402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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