MERTZ: A quest for a robust and scalable active vision humanoid head robot

2004 4th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 513-532

  Aryananda, Lijin ^a   Weber, Jeff ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Humanoid robot; Reliability; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VISION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SENSORS;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DESIGN; HUMANOID ROBOT; SENSORIMOTORS; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 17144368075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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