Autonomous robot calibration using vision technology

Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 436-446

  Meng, Yan ^a   Zhuang, Hanqi ^b  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera self calibration; Computer vision; Robot autonomous calibration; Robot self calibration

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER VISION; MANIPULATORS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CAMERA SELF CALIBRATION; ROBOT AUTONOMOUS CALIBRATION; ROBOT SELF CALIBRATION;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 33947603404     PISSN: 07365845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcim.2006.05.002     Document Type: Article

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