High fidelity tools for rescue robotics: Results and perspectives

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4020 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 301-311

  Carpin, Stefano ^a   Wang, Jijun ^b   Lewis, Michael ^b   Birk, Andreas ^a   Jacoff, Adam ^c  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

GAME ENGINE; HIGH-FIDELITY; REAL ROBOT; RESCUE ROBOTICS; ROBOCUPRESCUE; ROBOCUPRESCUE SIMULATION; ROBOT SIMULATION TOOLS; SEARCH AND RESCUE TASKS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 35948984969     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11780519_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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