This paper attempts to present a comprehensive summary of research results in the use of
visual information to control robot manipulators and related mechanisms. An extensive …

Recent vision-based control algorithms for robot manipulators are reviewed. Vision is
essential for robots working in an unstructured environment. There are numerous research …

US8108072B2 - Methods and systems for robotic instrument tool tracking with adaptive fusion
of kinematics information and image information - Google Patents US8108072B2 - Methods …

Methods and system perform tool tracking during minimally invasive robotic surgery. Tool
states are determined using triangulation techniques or a Bayesian filter from either or both …

An attempt to achieve a high level of interaction between a real-time vision system capable
of tracking moving objects in 3-D and a robot arm with gripper that can be used to pick up a …

In one embodiment of the invention, a tool tracking system is disclosed including a computer
usable medium having com puter readable program code to receive images of video frames …

The use of a vision sensor in the feedback loop is addressed within the controlled active
vision framework. Algorithms are proposed for the solution of the robotic (eye-in-hand …

In this paper we argue that the focus of much of the visual servoing literature has been on
the kinematics of visual control and has ignored a number of fundamental and significant …

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systems - Google Patents US8147503B2 - Methods of locating and tracking robotic instruments …

The analysis, processing, evolution, optimization and/or regulation, and control of shapes
and images appear naturally in engineering (shape optimization, image processing, visual …