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