Distributed Mobile Robot Application Infrastructure

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1475-1480

  Woo, Evan ^a   MacDonald, Bruce A ^b   Trépanier, Félix ^b  

^a EDS ^*  (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROBOT PROGRAMMING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; MIDDLEWARE; PRODUCT DESIGN; RESEARCH; SPECIFICATIONS; WEBSITES;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0348040432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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