Redundancy control of a humanoid head for foveation and three-dimensional object tracking: A virtual mechanism approach

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2171-2197

  Omrčen, Damir ^a   Ude, Aleš ^a,b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Active stereo vision; foveated vision; humanoid head; redundancy resolution; virtual mechanism

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE STEREO VISION; FOVEATED VISION; HUMANOID HEAD; REDUNDANCY RESOLUTION; VIRTUAL MECHANISM;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; KINEMATICS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STEREO VISION;

EID: 78649400644     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/016918610X534303     Document Type: Article

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