Crowding and guiding groups of humans by teams of mobile robots

2005 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 91-96

  Martínez García, Edgar A ^a   Akihisa, Ohya ^a   Yuta, Shin'ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Guiding simulation; Guiding tours; Motion planning; Multi robot systems; Trajectory control

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION PLANNING;

GUIDING SIMULATION; MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEMS (MRS); ROBOTS MOTION PLANNER; TRAJECTORY CONTROL;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 33746814895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARSO.2005.1511629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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