The power of the dark side: Using cast shadows for visually-guided touching

2004 4th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 437-449

  Fitzpatrick, Paul M ^a   Torres Jara, Eduardo R ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth perception; Humanoid robotics; Manipulation; Shadows; Time to contact

Indexed keywords

BIPED LOCOMOTION; COMPUTER VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; ROBOTIC ARMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HUMANOID ROBOTICS; OBJECT BOUNDARIES; TIME TO CONTACT; VISUALLY GUIDED TOUCHING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 17144411890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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