Invited review: the synergy between virtual reality and robotics

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 400-410

  Burdea, Grigore C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MANIPULATORS; ROBOT PROGRAMMING; ROBOTS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HAPTIC FEEDBACK; OFF LINE PROGRAMMING; PLANT LAYOUT SIMULATION; SYNERGY; TELEOPERATION; VIRTUAL MANUFACTURING;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0032671432     PISSN: 1042296X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/70.768174     Document Type: Article

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