Robots in the kitchen: Exploiting ubiquitous sensing and actuation

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 844-856

  Rusu, Radu Bogdan ^a,b   Gerkey, Brian ^c   Beetz, Michael ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c Willow Garage Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Reusable code; Sensor network; Software infrastructure; Ubiquitous robotics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; MOBILE ROBOTS; SENSORS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

REUSABLE CODE; SENSOR NETWORK; SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE; UBIQUITOUS ROBOTICS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 51449084453     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2008.06.010     Document Type: Article

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