Tele-Presence in Populated Exhibitions Through Web-Operated Mobile Robots

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 299-316

  Burgard, Wolfram ^a   Trahanias, Panos ^c   Hähnel, Dirk ^a   Moors, Mark ^b   Schulz, Dirk ^b   Baltzakis, Haris ^c   Argyros, Antonis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Navigation competences; Remote visualization; Tele presence in exhibitions; Web operated robots

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; INTERNET; MAPPING; MOTION PLANNING; OBSTACLE DETECTORS; RELIABILITY; ROBOTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

REMOTE VISUALIZATION; TELEOPERATION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0344034159     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026272605502     Document Type: Article

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