Cleaning and household robots: A technology survey

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-235

  Fiorini, Paolo ^a   Prassler, Erwin ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Forschungsinstitut fur anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complete coverage; Control architecture; Design requirements; Mechanical configuration

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042724890     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008954632763     Document Type: Article

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