Human-Following Mobile Robot in a Distributed Intelligent Sensor Network

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 229-237

  Morioka, Kazuyuki ^a   Lee, Joo Ho ^a,b   Hashimoto, Hideki ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed sensors; Intelligent environment; Mobile robot; Tracking control

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS; POSITION CONTROL; SENSORS; TRACKING (POSITION);

DISTRIBUTED SENSORS; INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT; TRACKING CONTROL;

INTELLIGENT NETWORKS;

EID: 1342308133     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2003.821894     Document Type: Article

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