MAid: A robotic wheelchair operating in public environments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1724, Issue , 1999, Pages 68-95

  Prassler, Erwin ^a   Scholz, Jens ^a   Strobel, Matthias ^a   Fiorini, Paolo ^b  

^a Forschungsinstitut fur anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXHIBITION BUILDINGS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; TRAFFIC SURVEYS; WHEELCHAIRS;

FINE MOTION CONTROL; INTELLIGENT WHEELCHAIR; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; PASSENGER TRAFFIC; PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT; RAILWAY STATIONS; ROBOTIC WHEELCHAIRS;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 22844455167     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10705474_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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