A wire-based active tracker

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 642-651

  Andrade Cetto, Juan ^a   Thomas, Federico ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE ROBÒTICA I INFORMÀTICA INDUSTRIAL CSIC UPC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active sensing; Kalman filtering; Mutual information; Parallel manipulators; Tracking devices

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SENSING; FIXED BASE; INTERFERENCE PROBLEMS; MOVING OBJECTS; PULLING FORCE; SINGULAR CONFIGURATIONS; TRACKING DEVICES;

WIRE;

EID: 46349104632     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2008.924260     Document Type: Article

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