Light weight autonomous climbing robot for elderly and disabled persons' services

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics

Volumn 24, Issue , 2006, Pages 407-416

  Balaguer, Carlos ^a   Giménez, Antonio ^a   Jardón, Alberto ^a   Correal, Raúl ^a   Cabas, Ramiro ^a   Staroverov, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISABLED PERSONS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

AUTONOMOUS CLIMBING; CLIMBING ROBOTS; DISABLED PEOPLE; DOCKING STATION; ROBOTIC SOLUTIONS; SELF CONTAINING; TYPE OF SERVICES; WORKPLACE ENVIRONMENTS;

MANIPULATORS;

EID: 33748935562     PISSN: 16107438     EISSN: 1610742X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/10991459_39     Document Type: Article

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