Evaluation of architectures for mobile robotics

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-49

  Orebäck, Anders ^a   Christensen, Henrik I ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Architecture; Comparison; Robots; Service robot; Software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE PORTABILITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); ROBOT PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SERVICE ROBOT; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0037262982     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020975419546     Document Type: Article

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