Copycat hand - Robot hand imitating human motions at high speed and with high accuracy

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 21, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1743-1761

  Hoshino, Kiyoshi ^a   Tamaki, Emi ^a   Tanimoto, Takanobu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hand posture estimation; High speed search; Large scale database; Multistage self organizing; Self extinction; Self multiplication; Similar data

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; TIME DELAY;

HAND POSTURE ESTIMATION; HIGH SPEED SEARCH; LARGE SCALE DATABASE; MULTISTAGE SELF ORGANIZING; SELF EXTINCTIONS; SELF MULTIPLICATIONS;

ROBOT LEARNING;

EID: 36148997650     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855307782506183     Document Type: Article

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