An integrated approach to the conceptual design and development of an intelligent autonomous mobile robot

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 498-512

  Yavuz, Hakan ^a  

^a MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conceptual design; Function oriented design; Functional system integration; Intelligent autonomous mobile robot

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OPTIMIZATION;

FUNCTION ORIENTED DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM INTEGRATION; INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34247882047     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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