Insights toward robot-assisted evacuation

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 797-818

  Shell, Dylan A ^a   Matarić, Maja J ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive disaster response; Evacuation dynamics

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE DISASTER RESPONSE; EGRESS TIME; EVACUATION DYNAMICS; PEDESTRIAN SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER PREVENTION; MOBILE ROBOTS; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 25444472865     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568553055011483     Document Type: Article

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