Maintaining visibility constraints during tele-echography with ultrasound visual servoing

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 4856-4861

  Li, Tao ^a   Kermorgant, Olivier ^a   Krupa, Alexandre ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

redundancy; Tele echography; visibility constraints; visual servoing

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MEDICAL IMAGING; PROBES; REDUNDANCY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VISIBILITY;

2D ULTRASOUNDS; CONTROL APPROACH; MEDICAL EXPERTS; MEDICAL ROBOTS; TELE-ECHOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND IMAGES; VISIBILITY CONSTRAINT; VISUAL FEATURE;

VISUAL SERVOING;

EID: 84864438754     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6224974     Document Type: Conference Paper

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