Autonomous spherical mobile robot for child-development studies

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 471-480

  Michaud, François ^a   Laplante, Jean François ^a   Larouche, Hélène ^a   Duquette, Audrey ^a   Caron, Serge ^a   Létourneau, Dominic ^a   Masson, Patrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Interaction studies; Mobile robot; Pediatric toy

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MOTION CONTROL; PHOTODETECTORS; ROBOTICS; SENSORS; SERVOMOTORS; USER INTERFACES;

AUTONOMOUS SPHERICAL MOBILE ROBOT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT STUDIES; MOBILE ROBOT DESIGN; PEDIATRIC TOY; SELF-PROPELLED MOTION;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 22244458916     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.850596     Document Type: Article

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