Realtime Perception for Catching a Flying Ball with a Mobile Humanoid

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5955-5962

  Birbach, Oliver ^a   Frese, Udo ^a   Bäuml, Berthold ^b  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; CIRCLE DETECTION; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS UNITS; MARKER-BASED TRACKING; MULTI-HYPOTHESIS TRACKING; MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS TRACKER; PERCEPTION SYSTEMS; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PRIOR INFORMATION; REAL TIME; TUNING PARAMETER;

MOTION COMPENSATION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 84855593012     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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