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MVA
1994
13 years 6 months ago
Visual Control of a Robot Head
these points must not be coplanar. We report in this article a real time algorithm TIM that can track and estimate hand gesture, providing reliably 5 degrees of freedom from a sing...
Han Wang, Stan Z. Li, Eam Khwang Teoh
IROS
2006
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Control of facial expressions of the humanoid robot head ROMAN
— For humanoid robots which are able to assist humans in their daily life, the capability for adequate interaction with human operators is a key feature. If one considers that mo...
Karsten Berns, Jochen Hirth
IROS
2007
IEEE
147views Robotics» more  IROS 2007»
13 years 11 months ago
Autonomous learning of 3D reaching in a humanoid robot
— In this paper, we describe the implementation of a precise reaching controller on an upper-torso humanoid robot. The solution we propose does not rely on prior models of the ki...
Francesco Nori, Lorenzo Natale, Giulio Sandini, Gi...
RAS
2006
91views more  RAS 2006»
13 years 4 months ago
Visual navigation and obstacle avoidance using a steering potential function
Humans have a remarkable ability to navigate using only vision, but mobile robots have not been nearly as successful. We propose a new approach to vision-guided local navigation, ...
Wesley H. Huang, Brett R. Fajen, Jonathan R. Fink,...
SGAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Camera-Direction Dependent Visual-Motor Coordinate Transformation for a Visually Guided Neural Robot
Objects of interest are represented in the brain simultaneously in different frames of reference. Knowing the positions of one’s head and eyes, for example, one can compute the...
Cornelius Weber, David Muse, Mark Elshaw, Stefan W...