Robots as interfaces to haptic and locomotor spaces

HRI 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Robot as Team Member

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 325-331

  Kulyukin, Vladimir ^a   Gharpure, Chaitanya ^a   Pentico, Cassidy ^b  

^a Utah State University ^*

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive robotics; Haptic and locomotor interfaces; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; HAPTIC INTERFACES; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; LOCOMOTOR INTERFACES; SENSORY MODALITY; SPATIAL COGNITION;

BIPED LOCOMOTION;

EID: 34548258742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1228716.1228760     Document Type: Conference Paper

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