Tourbot and WebFAIR: Web-operated mobile robots for tele-presence in populated exhibitions

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 77-89

  Trahanias, Panos ^a   Burgard, Wolfram ^b   Argyros, Antonis ^a   Hähnel, Dirk ^b   Baltzakis, Haris ^a   Pfaff, Patrick ^b   Stachniss, Cyrill ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Navigation competences; Remote visualization; Robots in exhibitions; Web operated robots

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; EXHIBITIONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MOTION CONTROL; REMOTE CONTROL; WORLD WIDE WEB;

NAVIGATION COMPETENCES; REMOTE VISUALIZATION; ROBOTS IN EXHIBITIONS; WEB-OPERATED ROBOTS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 24944448357     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2005.1458329     Document Type: Article

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