Model-based control architecture for attentive robots in rescue scenarios

Autonomous Robots

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-120

  Carbone, Andrea ^a   Finzi, Alberto ^b   Orlandini, Andrea ^c   Pirri, Fiora ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention (vision) based; Human robot interaction; Mixed initiative planning; Model based control

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE ROBOTS;

ATTENTION (VISION) BASED; MIXED INITIATIVE PLANNING; MODEL BASED CONTROL;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 37448999538     PISSN: 09295593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10514-007-9055-6     Document Type: Article

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