RoboCart: Toward robot-assisted navigation of grocery stores by the visually impaired

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2845-2850

  Kulyukin, Vladimir ^a   Gharpure, Chaitanya ^a   Nicholson, John ^a  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Service robotics

Indexed keywords

RANGE FINDING; ROBOTICS;

CURRENT STATUS; GROCERY STORES; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS; LASER RANGE-FINDING; PROOF OF CONCEPT; ROBOT-ASSISTED NAVIGATION; SERVICE ROBOTICS; VISUALLY IMPAIRED;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 33745808490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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