Solving the robot-world/hand-eye calibration problem using the kronecker product

Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Shah, Mili ^a,b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera calibration; Computer vision; Hand eye calibration; Registration; Robot world calibration; Robotics; Rotation; Six degrees of freedom; Translation

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROBLEMS; CAMERA CALIBRATION; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; ERROR METRICS; HAND-EYE CALIBRATION; KRONECKER PRODUCT; REGISTRATION; SIX DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

COMPUTER VISION; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; ROTATION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84890850180     PISSN: 19424302     EISSN: 19424310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4024473     Document Type: Article

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