The development of an autonomous service robot. Implementation: "lucas"-The library assistant robot

Intelligent Service Robotics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-89

  Behan, Julie ^a   O'Keeffe, Derek T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Library assistant; Localization; Mobile service robots; Vanishing point

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649021588     PISSN: 18612776     EISSN: 18612784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11370-007-0005-0     Document Type: Article

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