A neuromorphic control module for real-time vergence eye movements on the iCub robot head

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 543-550

  Gibaldi, Agostino ^a   Canessa, Andrea ^a   Chessa, Manuela ^a   Sabatini, Silvio P ^a   Solari, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR DISPARITY; CONTROL MODULE; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CORTICAL MODELS; DISTRIBUTED REPRESENTATION; HUMANOID ROBOT; NEUROMORPHIC; ROBOT HEAD; VERGENCE CONTROL; VERGENCES;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; BINOCULARS;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84856339698     PISSN: 21640572     EISSN: 21640580     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100861     Document Type: Conference Paper

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