Catching flying balls with a mobile humanoid: System overview and design considerations

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 513-520

  Bäuml, Berthold ^a   Birbach, Oliver ^a,b   Wimböck, Thomas ^a   Frese, Udo ^a,b   Dietrich, Alexander ^a   Hirzinger, Gerd ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL LEVELS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DYNAMIC TASKS; FLYING TIME; MOBILE PLATFORM; PATH PLANNING AND CONTROL; REACHING MOTION; REAL TIME; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; WHOLE BODY;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; MIDDLEWARE; MOTION PLANNING;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84856343844     PISSN: 21640572     EISSN: 21640580     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Humanoids.2011.6100837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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