Camera assisted calibration of SCARA arms

This paper presents some experimental results obtained by applying an approach of Lenz and Tsai (1989) to SCARA arm calibration. A new camera calibration technique, which is singular-free for this type of system, is employed. Several practical recommendations are given for robot users in general and SCARA arm users in particular.

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