Design of the robot-cub (iCub) head

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 94-100

  Beira, Ricardo ^a   Lopes, Manuel ^a   Praça, Miguel ^a   Santos Victor, José ^a   Bernardino, Alexandre ^a   Metta, Giorgio ^b   Becchi, Francesco ^c   Saltarén, Roque ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND ROBOTICS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c TELEROBOT   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA ACQUISITION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MACHINE DESIGN; SENSORS; SPECIFICATIONS;

HUMANOID ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; KINEMATIC COMPLEXITY; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 33845681457     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2006.1641167     Document Type: Conference Paper

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