Learning user models of mobility-related activities through instrumented walking aids

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 2004, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 3306-3312

  Glover, Jared ^a   Thrun, Sebastian ^b   Matthews, Judith T ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIGATION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STATISTICAL METHODS; WALKING AIDS; WHEELCHAIRS;

EQUIPPED ROBOTIC WALKER; LEARNING USER MODELS; MOBILITY RELATED ACTIVITIES; NAVIGATIONAL GUIDANCE;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 3042649856     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/robot.2004.1308764     Document Type: Conference Paper

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