Locating end-effector tips in robotic micromanipulation

IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 125-130

  Liu, Jun ^a   Gong, Zheng ^a   Tang, Kathryn ^a   Lu, Zhe ^a   Ru, Changhai ^a   Luo, Jun ^a   Xie, Shaorong ^a   Sun, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autofocusing; end effector detection; Locating end effector tips; Robotic micromanipulation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; ROBOTICS; TOOLS; VISUAL SERVOING;

AUTO-FOCUSING; LOCATING END-EFFECTOR TIPS; MICRO MANIPULATION; MICRO MANIPULATION SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPY IMAGING; MOTION HISTORY IMAGES; PROCESSING PARAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT;

MICROMANIPULATORS;

EID: 84894536451     PISSN: 15523098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2013.2280060     Document Type: Article

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