A portable light-weight climbing robot for personal assistance applications

Industrial Robot

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 303-307

  Jardon, A ^a   Gimenez, A ^a   Correal, R ^a   Cabas, R ^a   Martinez, S ^a   Balaguer, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Rehabilitation; Robotics; Service operations

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTICS;

CLIMBING ROBOT; DOCKING STATIONS; SELF-CONTAINING LIGHT WEIGHT MANIPULATOR; SERVICE OPERATIONS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33745449746     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910610667935     Document Type: Article

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