TORSO: Development of a telexistence visual system using a 6-d.o.f. robot head

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1053-1073

  Watanabe, Kouichi ^a   Kawabuchi, Ichiro ^b   Kawakami, Naoki ^a   Maeda, Taro ^c   Tachi, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Kawabuchi Mechanical Engineering Laboratory   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

6 D.O.F. robot head; Master slave; Motion parallax; Telexistence; Torso

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; ROBOTICS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

CONVENTIONAL IMAGING; EVOLUTION (CO); FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); HEAD MOTION; HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS (HMD); MASTER-SLAVE SYSTEMS; MOTION PARALLAX; REMOTE PLACES; ROBOT HEADS; THREE-AXIS; TRANSLATIONAL MOTIONS; VISUAL FIELD (VF); VISUAL INFORMATIONS; VISUAL SYSTEMS;

HELMET MOUNTED DISPLAYS;

EID: 47849113053     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855308X324767     Document Type: Article

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