Robot-assisted wayfinding for the visually impaired in structured indoor environments

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-41

  Kulyukin, Vladimir ^a   Gharpure, Chaitanya ^a   Nicholson, John ^a   Osborne, Grayson ^b  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive robotics; Human robot interaction; RFID based localization; Robot assisted wayfinding

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RFID-BASED LOCALIZATION; ROBOT-ASSISTED WAYFINDING;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SENSORS;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33745837790     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-006-7223-8     Document Type: Article

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