Mobile robot assistants

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 67-77

  Graf, Birgit ^a   Hans, Matthias ^a   Schraft, Rolf Dieter ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING AND AUTOMATION IPA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; MANIPULATORS; MOTION PLANNING; NAVIGATION; SENSORS;

CONTROL SOFTWARE; INTERACTIVE ROBOT; MOBILE ROBOT ASSISTANT; MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION; ROBOT HARDWARE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 3242734139     PISSN: 10709932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2004.1310943     Document Type: Article

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