Implementation of Listing´s Law for a Tendon Driven Robot Eye

This paper presents a model for a tendon driven robot eye designed to emulate the actual saccadic and smooth pursuit movements performed by human eyes. Physiological saccadic motions obey the so called Listing´s law which constrains the admissible eye´s angular velocities. The paper discusses conditions making possible to implement the Listing´s law on a purely mechanical basis, i.e. without active control